A review by pagesofpins
Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges

5.0

I thought I knew the basics of this story, but I had no idea only one teacher was willing to interact with Ruby for a year, that only a handful of other white students attended school for a year (did the other 500+ go elsewhere? Repeat grades?), that her father lost his job. The teacher who bonded with her and the psychologist who insisted on checking the mental health of all black and white integrated students are the kind of adults kids deserve. And her mother: how she summoned up the courage to bring her tiny girl through that crowd, I do not know.