num_pages: 236
description: You've gotta learn to defend yourself. Never let your enemy know what you are feeling. -- The soldier assigned to protect Melba Please, God, let me learn how to stop being a warrior. Sometimes I just need to be a girl. -- Melba's diary, on her sixteenth birthday In 1957 Melba Pattillo turned sixteen. That was also the year she became a warrior on the front lines of a civil rights firestorm. Following the landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board Education, she was one of nine teenagers chosen to integrate Little Rock's Central High School. This is her remarkable story. You will listen to the cruel taunts of her schoolmates and their parents. You will run with her from the threat of a lynch mob's rope. You will share her terror as she dodges lighted sticks of dynamite, and her pain as she washes away the acid sprayed into her eyes. But most of all you will share Melba's dignity and courage as she refuses to back down.
language: English
title: Warriors Don't Cry
titlecomplete: Warriors Don't Cry
characters: Melba Beals
genres: Historical, History, School, Biography, Memoir, African American, Biography Memoir, Read For School, Race, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 14858
places: Little Rock, Arkansas, Arkansas
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Robert F. Kennedy Book Award
category: Distinguished Honor
publisher: Pocket Books