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This Is Your Time

This Is Your Time

This Is Your Time
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This Is Your Time Hardback - 2020

by Bridges, Ruby

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  • Title This Is Your Time
  • Author Bridges, Ruby
  • Binding Hardback
  • Condition Used - Very good
  • Pages 64
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Delacorte Press
  • Publication date 2020-11-10
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # WAL-S-5f-01219
  • 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)
  • Age range 10 to UP years
  • Grade levels 5 - UP
  • Reading level 940
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Category Children's Books/All Ages
  • Library of Congress subjects African Americans, New Orleans (La.) - Race relations
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2020944816
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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More Than Words empowers youth who are in foster care, court-involved, homeless or out of school to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business. MTW believes that when system-involved youth are challenged with authentic and increasing responsibilities in a business setting, and are given high expectations and a culture of support, they can and will address personal barriers to success, create concrete action plans for their lives, and become contributing members of society. More Than Words began as an online bookselling training program for youth in DCF custody in 2004 and opened its vibrant bookstore on Moody St in Waltham in 2005 and added its Starbucks coffee bar in 2008. MTW replicated its model in the South End of Boston in 2011, thereby doubling the number of youth served annually.

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From the publisher

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - CBC KIDS' BOOK CHOICE AWARD WINNER

Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges--who, at the age of six, was the first black child to integrate into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans--inspires readers and calls for action in this moving letter. Her elegant, memorable gift book is especially uplifting in the wake of Kamala Harris making US history as the first female, first Black, and first South Asian vice president-elect.

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.

This beautifully designed volume features photographs from the 1960s and from today, as well as stunning jacket art from The Problem We All Live With, the 1964 painting by Norman Rockwell depicting Ruby's walk to school.

Ruby's honest and impassioned words, imbued with love and grace, serve as a moving reminder that "what can inspire tomorrow often lies in our past." This Is Your Time will electrify people of all ages as the struggle for liberty and justice for all continues and the powerful legacy of Ruby Bridges endures.

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Citations

  • Booklist, 11/01/2020, Page 49
  • Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks, 11/01/2020, Page 0
  • Horn Book Magazine, 01/01/2021, Page 123
  • Hornbook Guide to Children, 01/01/2021, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 11/01/2020, Page 0
  • School Library Journal, 11/01/2020, Page 80

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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