Through My Eyes (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780590189231)

In November 1960, all of America watched as a tiny six-year-old black girl, surrounded by federal marshals, walked through a mob of screaming segregationists and into her school. An icon of the civil rights movement, Ruby Bridges chronicles each dramatic step of this pivotal event in history through her own words.

Author: Ruby Bridges
ISBN-10: 0590189239
ISBN-13: 9780590189231
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/1999
Pages: 64
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 10.82h x 9.40w x 0.43d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.9
Point Value: 2
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 36565 / Through My Eyes

Award: Bluebonnet Awards - Nominee
Award: Bookseller's Choice - Winner
Award: Parents Choice Award (Fall) (1998-2007) - Winner
Award: NAPPA Gold Awards - Winner
Award: Children's Books of Distinction Awards - Winner
Award: Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award - Nominee
Award: Golden Sower Award - Nominee
Award: South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award - Nominee
Award: Young Hoosier Book Award - Nominee
Award: Black-Eyed Susan Award - Nominee
Award: Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award - Nominee
Award: Jane Addams Children's Book Award - Winner
Award: Jefferson Cup - Honor Book
Award: Sasquatch Award - Nominee
Award: Orbis Pictus Award - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/18/1999 pg. 84
New York Times 11/21/1999 pg. 60
Booklist 11/15/1999 pg. 622
School Library Journal 12/01/1999 pg. 146
Black Issues Book Review 01/01/2000 pg. 69
Booklist Ed Choice Youth 01/01/2000 pg. 821
New York Times 12/05/1999 pg. 100
ALA Notable Children's Books 01/01/2000 pg. 1359
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/1999 pg. 105 - Superior,Well Above Average
Booklist 01/01/2001 pg. 956
Publishers Weekly 01/01/2001 pg. 58
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2000 pg. 105 - Superior,Well Above Average
Library Journal 12/01/1999