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Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0061148989
ISBN-13
9780061148989
eBay Product ID (ePID)
69581483
Product Key Features
Book Title
My Mother the Cheerleader
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Family / Parents, Historical / United States / 20th Century, General, People & Places / United States / General, Social Themes / Peer Pressure, Social Themes / Prejudice & Racism
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Juvenile Fiction, Young Adult Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
8.5 Oz
Item Length
8.1 in
Item Width
5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Young Adult Audience
Reviews
"To most young readers, 1960 is nearly ancient history, yet the prejudice that Louise views in the Ninth Ward is still part of life today." -- School Library Journal (starred review) "In his debut novel, television A&E producer Sharenow challenges the view that those Cheerleaders shouting the n-word were just a few crazy freaks." -- Booklist (starred review) "When 6-year-old Ruby Bridges starts attending William Frantz Elementary in an initial effort to desegregate the school system, Louise and many other white children are yanked out of the school as a sign of parental protest. Louise's mother joins a group of women dubbed 'the Cheerleaders.' These Southern belles spend their mornings on the schoolyard viciously taunting Ruby as she makes her way into the building. The most shocking thing about this extraordinary historical novel is that these details are true." -- Chicago Tribune "Shows a great deal of courage from a young girl." -- Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA) "Sharenow is unflinching in his portrait of bull-headed Southern bigots who punish women with brutal rape, men with immolation, and children with vicious threats in an attempt to pass their own dismal limitations on to future generations." -- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books "An unflinching look at the violence and hatred that permeated throughout this time in history." -- Kirkus Reviews, To most young readers, 1960 is nearly ancient history, yet the prejudice that Louise views in the Ninth Ward is still part of life today.
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Eighth Grade
Synopsis
Louise Collins was pretty certain that nothing all that exciting would happen in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans, where she lived with her mother in their boarding house, Rooms on Desire. Every day was almost the same: serve cranky Mr. Landroux his meals in bed, visit Antoine's Pick-a-Chick with Charlotte, and wear out the pages of her favorite novels by reading them over and over. But when desegregation begins, Louise is pulled out of school and her mother joins the Cheerleaders, a group of local women who gather every morning to heckle six-year-old Ruby Bridges, William Frantz Elementary's first African-American student. Then one day a Chevy Bel Air with a New York license plate pulls up to the house and out steps Morgan Miller, a man with a mysterious past. For the first time, Louise feels as if someone cares about what she thinks. But when the reason for Morgan's visit comes to light, everything Louise thinks she knows about her mother, her world, and herself changes, abruptly and irrevocably., At thirteen, Louise Collins has gotten used to her mother's affinity for truckers, alligator handbags and hurling insults at a six-year-old every morning when she arrives at school. Ruby Bridges is the first black student to attend all-white William J. Frantz Elementary in New Orleans and Louise's mother is one of the "Cheerleaders," women who are fiercly against desegregation. With a school boycott underway, Louise spends her days at the boarding house her mother runs tending to their crotchety permanent guest and reading Jane Eyre. One day, a Chevy Bel Air pulls up and out steps Morgan Miller, a man whose mysterious past is eclipsed by his intellect and open manner - qualities that enchant mother and daughter alike. For the first time, Louise feels like someone cares what she thinks, even if she doesn't know what she believes. But when Morgan's motivations are called into question, everything Louise thinks she knows about her mother, her world and herself will change. "It' so easy to look back at another time and place and say to each other, 'What on earth were those people thinking' But what if someone told us what those people were thinking, and showed us the personal earthquakes that had to occur before they could think something else Maybe we would realize that we are all human beings. That's one of the things that happens when you read this important book." -Lynne Rae Perkins, author of the Newbery Award-winning Criss Cross., Share this "harrowing and painfully honest historical novel" * at home or in the classroom. Through this "extraordinary" debut effort from the Sydney Taylor Award winner Robert Sharenow, readers will explore how "ingrained prejudices--whether acted upon or not--help destroy lives and shatter a community." ** In 1960 New Orleans, thirteen-year-old Louise is pulled out of class by her mother to protest court-ordered integration of her school. Louise's mother is one of the jeering "Cheerleaders." Each morning the Cheerleaders gather at the school to harass the school's first black student, six-year-old Ruby Bridges, as she enters the building. After a mysterious man from New York named Morgan arrives in town and takes up residence in the family's crumbling boarding house, Louise's acceptance of "the way things are" begins to crumble. Through conversations with Morgan and firsthand observations, Louise begins to wonder about the morality of the Cheerleaders' activities--and everything Louise thinks she knows about her mother, her world, and herself will change. In a starred review, Booklist commented: "Readers will be held fast by the history told from the inside as adult Louise remembers the vicious role of ordinary people." *School Library Journal (starred review); **Chicago Tribune
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