Through My Eyes: Ruby Bridges: Ruby Bridges
School year: Lower 6th, Upper 6th, Year 10, Year 11, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6, Year 7, Year 8, Year 9
No. of pages 64
Published: 1999
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This book is the winner of numerous awards
This book is aimed at children at US 3rd grade-7th grade.
This book has been graded for interest at 9-12 years.
There are 64 pages in this book. This book was published in 1999 by Scholastic US .
Ruby Bridges became a pioneer in school integration at the age of six, when she was chosen to spend her first-grade year in what had formerly been an all-white elementary school. Ruby Bridges now works as a lecturer, telling her story to adults and children alike. She lives with her husband and sons in New Orleans, Louisiana.
This book has been nominated for the following awards:
Young Hoosier Book Award - Grades 4-6
This book was recognised in the Grades 4-6 category by the Young Hoosier Book Award.
Booksellers' Choice Award - Nonfiction
This book was recognised in the Nonfiction category by the Booksellers' Choice Award.
Parents' Choice Award
This book was recognised by the Parents' Choice Award.
Nappa Gold Award - Nonfiction
This book was recognised in the Nonfiction category by the Nappa Gold Award.
Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award
This book was recognised by the Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award.
Bluebonnet Award
This book was recognised by the Bluebonnet Award.
Jane Addams Children's Book Award - Older Children
This book was recognised in the Older Children category by the Jane Addams Children's Book Award.
Jefferson Cup - YA
This book was recognised in the YA category by the Jefferson Cup.
Children's Books of Distinction Award - Nonfiction
This book was recognised in the Nonfiction category by the Children's Books of Distinction Award.
Orbis Pictus Award
This book was recognised by the Orbis Pictus Award.
USA TODAY
Thursday, March 23, 2000
LIFE
The best in the eyes of young readers
by: Bob Minzesheimer
Norman Rockwell painted her when she was 6, surrounded by four federal marshals, marching to a New Orleans elementary school in the cause of integration.
Nearly 40 years later, Ruby Bridges turned her memories of that experience into a book for children. Today, Through My Eyes (Scholastic, $16.95) wins an award as 1999's best non-fiction children's book that "advances humanitarian ideals and serves as an inspiration to young readers." It's recommended for readers ages 7 to 12.
It's one of three awards from the Bank Street College of Education in New York. Each year, Bank Street organizes a children's book committee - half adults, half kids. They review 4,000 books and recommend 600 for various age groups.
'The work is shared by 28 librarians, teachers, authors and parents and 28 "young reviewers" (ages 7 to 15) from across the country who have in common a passion for books. Today, the committee issues the new edition of The Best Children's Books of the Year, which costs $8, and awards two others prizes:
- For a book "in which young people deal in a positive and realistic way with difficulties" and "grow emotionally and moraly"- Gina Willner- Pardo for Figuring Out Frances (Houghton Mifflin, $14). It's about a 10-year-old girl who's trying to figure out boys, her mother and a grand- mother who has Alzheimer's. For readers 8 to 12.
- For the best poetry book - to Sonya Sones for Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy (HarperCollins, $14.95). It's about dealing with an older sister's mental breakdown. For readers 12 to 14.
For more information, call 212-8754540 or see www.bankstreet.edu/bookcom.