Interest Level
Grades 6 - 8
Reading Level
Grade level Equivalent: 5.4
Lexile Measure®: 830L
DRA: Not Available
Guided Reading: Not Available
Genre
- Historical Fiction
Theme/Subject
- High School
- Civil Rights Movement
- African American
- Jewish Experience
- Tolerance and Acceptance
- Prejudice and Tolerance Experiences
Sensitivity
- Violence
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About This Book
A typical teenager, fifteen-year-old Sylvia thinks about school, friends, and boys. She is unsure when she is chosen to be one of the students to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957, and worries about the violence and racism in her city. Before Sylvia makes her final decision, smoldering racial tension ignites into flame.
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