Ruby the Copycat
Ruby, a new student at a fictional school, tries to fit in by copying another student and later the teacher. When Ruby displays her own unique talents, however, she is able to win friends, at last.
Books: Picture
(most recently posted books: picture listed first) (click on title for more info)
The Story of Ruby Bridges
This picture book tells the story of Ruby Bridges, who, when she was six years old, was the only African-American student to attend a previously all-white school in New Orleans in 1960. Every day for months she had to walk past angry crowds of adults protesting her presence. This book tells the story of Bridges's first year at this school.
I Am America
Through portrait photographs and rhyming lines of poetry, this book explores students' identities and roles. It emphasizes how people of a variety of backgrounds make up the mosaic that is the United States.
Follow the Drinking Gourd
The book focuses on how enslaved African-Americans and others worked together to help people gain their freedom. The story is set in the pre-Civil War South. A group of five slaves escapes north to Canada and to freedom with the help of Peg-Leg Joe, a white man, and others who are the links on the underground railroad.
A Boy Called Slow
This picture books recounts the boyhood Sitting Bull, explaining how the Lakota Sioux chief, who was originally called "Slow," gained his adult name.
