Mildred Pitts Walter

Because We Are (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Emma's dreams of popularity and academic success go up in smoke when she's transferred to a less prestigious high school Twelfth grader Emma Walsh is one of the lucky few African Americans at exclusive Marlborough High School. She is the only black student on the student council, and she's just been elected to the National Honor Society. Now, the Golden Slippers will invite her to participate in their annual debutante ball. Graduation will be followed by a scholarship to a major university, then a celebrated career as a doctor. Her future couldn't be brighter. Until an uncalled-for outburst gets her transferred to the all-black Manning High School in the district where she lives. Emma fears she won't fit in with the other students who are less fortunate than she. Her only friend is shy Allan Page, a senior on a free busing program who could have chosen any high school-and picked Manning. As Emma becomes caught up in life at her new school, her old life feels farther and farther away. Does she really want to be a debutante? Who is she trying to impress? Her successful physician father? Her boyfriend? What about herself?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Road Media Teen & Tween
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Altersempfehlung: ab 12 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781504027908
• Artikelnr.: 44625936

Autorenporträt

Mildred Pitts Walter (b. 1922) is a civil rights activist and award-winning author. She voted for the first time for President Franklin D. Roosevelt. She taught as an elementary school teacher in the Los Angeles City school district and participated in the first Head Start founded by the University of California, Los Angeles. While teaching, Walter also actively worked to achieve justice and equality for all during the civil rights movement with her husband, Earl Walter, chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE.) After retiring from the classroom, she became a children's book writer. Walter's writing has been honored with many awards, including the 1987 Coretta Scott King Award for Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World, the 1993 Christopher Award for Nonfiction for Mississippi Challenge, and the National Council for the Social Studies Carter G. Woodson Book Award. In 2005 the National Council for the Social Studies honored her again with the Elementary Honor Book Award for Alec's Primer, and in 1996 she was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame. Most recently, she was acknowledged by the National Women's Law Center for her role in training freedom riders in the 1960s, with the honors presented by President Barack Obama. Walter has also been interviewed for the Smithsonian African American Historical and Cultural Museum in Washington, DC, for her civil rights contributions. She now resides in San Mateo, California.