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This Is Your Time Hardcover - 2020

by Ruby Bridges

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Delacorte Press, 1st Edition 2020, 3rd Printing, SIGNED by Ruby Bridges on a publisher's bookplate attached to the half title page. Hardcover with dust jacket, 55 numbered pages, 19 x 14 cm, black boards with silver titling on spine, jacket is white with a Norman Rockwell image ("The Problem We All Live With"), depicting Ruby Bridges' historic walk to school, lavishly illustrated with many (30+) period photographs and illustrations. NEW (unread) book. FINE in FINE DJ. Written as a letter from civil rights activist and icon Ruby Bridges to the reader, This Is Your Time is both a recounting of Ruby's experience as a child who had to be escorted to class by federal marshals when she was chosen to be one of the first black students to integrate into New Orleans' all-white public school system and an appeal to generations to come to effect change.
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  • Title This Is Your Time
  • Author Ruby Bridges
  • Illustrator Norman Rockwell
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Condition New
  • Pages 55
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Delacorte Press, New York
  • Date 2020
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # BIBLIO-613-NEW
  • ISBN 9780593378526 / 0593378520
  • Weight 0.35 lbs (0.16 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.1 x 5.3 x 0.6 in (18.03 x 13.46 x 1.52 cm)
  • Ages 10 to UP years
  • Grade levels 5 - UP
  • Reading level 940
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress subjects African Americans, New Orleans (La.) - Race relations
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2020944816
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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  • Booklist, 11/01/2020, Page 49
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About the author

Ruby Bridges is a civil rights activist who, at the age of six, was the first black student to integrate an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. She was born in Mississippi in 1954, the same year the United States Supreme Court handed down its landmark decision ordering the integration of public schools. Her family later moved to New Orleans, where on November 14, 1960, Bridges began attending William Frantz Elementary School, single-handedly initiating the desegregation of public education in New Orleans. Her walk to the front door of the building was immortalized in Norman Rockwell's famous painting The Problem We All Live With, in Robert Coles's book The Story of Ruby Bridges, and in the Disney movie Ruby Bridges.

This Is Your Time is her first book in over twenty years, following the publication of her award-winning autobiography Through My Eyes.

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