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Sharenow, Robert

My Mother the Cheerleader

300 pp. | HarperCollins/Geringer | May, 2007 | Trade ISBN 978-0-06-114896-5 $16.99 | Library ISBN 978-0-06-114897-2 $17.89
(3) YA In 1960 New Orleans, thirteen-year-old Louise's mother pulls her out of school in protest when Ruby Bridges enrolls and desegregation begins. Louise, emulating her FBI heroes, spends her days spying on a visitor from up north. The violence she witnesses introduces her to new attitudes about courage, independence, and justice. Sharenow's thought-provoking depiction of a moral awakening is wrenchingly honest.
Reviewer: Megan Lynn Isaac

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