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Draper, Sharon M.

Fire from the Rock

231 pp. | Dutton | August, 2007 | Trade ISBN 978-0-525-47720-4 $16.99
(4) YA As Little Rock, Arkansas, prepares for school integration in 1957, African American Sylvia Patterson struggles to decide whether to attend the white high school. Through third-person narration and diary entries, readers learn Sylvia's perspectives on racism and civil action in addition to some real-life history about the Little Rock Nine. The interjection of facts can be awkward. Websites.
Reviewer: Hannah Rodgers Barnaby

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