Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High

Contributor(s): Beals, Melba Pattillo (Author)

ISBN: 9780671866396

Publisher: Atria Books

Binding Types:

Paperback

$18.99

Digicover (1-4 copies)

$31.94 (Final Price)

Readerbound (5-99 copies)

$30.74 (100+ copies: $29.99)

List/retail price:

$18.99

Pub Date: February 1, 1995

Dewey: B

LCCN: 93044590

Lexile Code: 1000

Features: Price on Product

Target Age Group: 12 to 17

Physical Info: 0.80" H x 8.36" L x 5.34" W ( 0.66 lbs) 336 pages

BISAC Categories:

Biography and Autobiography | Cultural and Regional | Historical | Social Activists

Accelerated Reader® Info

Quiz #:0000018436 ( Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High)

Reading level: 6.50

Interest level: UG

Point value: 9.0

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: Melba Patillo Beals was one of nine black teenagers chosen to integrate Little Rock, Arkansas's Central High School in 1957. For Melba and her friends it marked their transformation into reluctant warriors--on a battlefield that helped shape the civil rights movement. Warriors Don't Cry is their riveting story. Optioned by Disney for a feature film.

Brief description: Melba Pattillo Beals is a journalist and member of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African-American students who were the first to integrate Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas.

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