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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 379.263092
EAN num: 9781416948827
ISBN number: 1416948821
Label: Simon Pulse
Manufacturer: Simon Pulse
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 240
Printing Date: July 24, 2007
Publishing house: Simon Pulse
Age index: Young Adult
Sale Popularity Level: 7330
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An innocent teenager.
An unexpected hero.
In 1957, Melba Pattillo turned sixteen. That was also the year she became a warrior on the front lines of a civil rights firestorm. Following the landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education, Melba was one of nine teenagers chosen to integrate Little Rock's Central High School.
Throughout her harrowing ordeal, Melba was taunted by her schoolmates and their parents, threatened by a lynch mob's rope, attacked with lighted sticks of dynamite, and injured by acid sprayed in her eyes. But through it all, she acted with dignity and courage, and refused to back down.
This is her remarkable story.
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Warrior's Don't Cry is about a young girl faced with challenges larger than life. At the age of 15, she is chosen to be one of the 9 students to integrate Central High in Little Rock Arkansas. It is the true story of Melba and her 8 African American classmates as they face all of the challenges of being placed in the all white classrooms of Central High.
The book starts off with Melba's very first day at school. We all know how stressful it is to start our very first day in High School. These 9 students were never able to have a successful very first day because of the hundreds of angry people surrounding the school, yelling "2-4-6-8 We don't want to integrate!" Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine, takes the bus to school. As she gets off of the bus, she is faced with an angry white mob. She tries to circumvent them but they move along with her, creating a human barricade preventing her from going to school. This was during the times when people were hung from a noose by angry white mobs. Throughout the ordeal, Elizabeth keeps her head up and tries to get away. Melba and her mom concoct a plan to distract the hundreds of people and create an escape route for Elizabeth. Finally, she escapes and returns home safely.
Don't let the non-fiction genre intimidate you. This book is full of all the drama of a teenagers' life. This true story shows us how scary and difficult it was to be the only grey students in a gigantic school. Every chapter gives you a look to the obstacles the Little Rock Nine had to face. On Melba's very first day of school, she is called out of her name on numerous occasions. Even her teachers encourage her classmates' racist behavior. Students yell the N word at her in the middle of class and the unnamed teacher ignores it and just kept on teaching. During P.E., Melba is tripped and falls to the ground. A group of her own classmates attack her and kick her while she is down. Her clothes are in tatters and she is slightly bruised.
Melba's school experience is far from a normal, boring one. After her very first days of school, the state militia is called in to mediate the transition. Each one of the Little Rock Nine are assigned a state militiaman to guard them and escort them from class to class during the day. This might seem to ameliorate the situation, but we know that it's not the solution when Melba is choked during a school pep rally.
What would you do if your classmates were out to hurt you and your teachers and principal and vice-principal could not properly protect you? Would you give up or would you keep trekking on? Read Warrior's Don't Cry to find out how Melba fares out in the end.
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Excellent book. So hard to read though - people can be horrible. I hope we have come a long way since this.
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I read Warriors Don't Cry for school, and when I began reading it, I knew I would enjoy it. Yes, I enjoyed it, but it is actually very terrifying to read. Everything that Beals writes is based on fact, and it is very terrifying to imagine that this is what she and the other young grey students faced when segregating into an all-white school.
This is a must-read, and is a well-written, terrifying look into the world before blacks and whites could be as one in a school. It's a must read!
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Title: Warriors Don't Cry
Author: Melba Pattillo Beals
Summary: Warriors Don't Cry is a book about a young African American girl named Melba integrating into an all white high school. It describes her journey through segregation and the hard times that Melba and her family had to go through. She enters Central High with 8 other African American students, not knowing the physical and mental abuse that they were about to endure. Melba sticks through it and fights like a warrior to make it though an entire year.
We enjoyed reading about all the exciting events that happened to Melba , and the 9 other African Americans. It was really interesting learning about integration and knowing it was all a true story made it even more impacting. Having it written by her was empowering because she was there to witness these events. We wished that some of the more exciting events were described more in detail because it would have made the book more suspenseful to see what would happen next. If you want to learn about historical event we would recommend this book to you. Its not the kinda of book that you get a good laugh out of or a good unrealistic story.
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I ordered this book as required reading for my 8th graders during a study of the civil rights movement. It was perfect...in every way. Students studied the book in their literature class while talking about civil rights in social studies. It was an easy read and most students were hooked from the very first pages. The extent of the brutality with which the members of the Little Rock Nine were treated during the year long integration of Central High School both horrified and moved my students. I highly recommend this very first hand account for its effectiveness in communicating what the events of the civil rights movement had to do with the lives of the individuals involved. Very powerful..catalyzed great class discussions. Also loved the 4 for 3 deal through Amazon which made this affordable for my kids.
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