Fire from the rock /

Draper, Sharon M.

Fire from the rock / Sharon M. Draper. - New York : Speak, 2008, c2007. - 231 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231).

Wilson's Junior High School, November 2008 School Library Journal starred, October 2007 Book Links (A.L.A.), January 2008 Library Media Connection starred, November 2007 Booklist, August 2007 Horn Book, April 2008 Bulletin (Center for Children's books), September 2007 Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), August 2007 Kirkus Review, July 2007 Multicultural Review, March 2008

Sylvia Patterson's life suddenly changes with the integration of Little Rock's Central High in 1957 when she is selected to be one of the first black students to attend the previously all white school.

Young Adult Follett Library Resources



014241199X


African Americans--Fiction.
Race relations--Fiction.
Family life--Arkansas--Fiction.
School stories.
Historical fiction.


Little Rock (Ark.)--History--Fiction.


Historical fiction.

PZ7.D78325 / Fi 2008

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