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Title	:	Fire from the Rock
Author	:	Sharon M. Draper
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 231 pages
Published	:	August 16th 2007 by Dutton Books for Young Readers
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. Cultural. African American. Fiction. Teen. Childrens. Middle Grade

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Sylvia Patterson is shocked and confused when she is asked to be one of the first black students to attend Central High School, which is scheduled to be integrated in September 1957, whether the citizens or governor of Arkansas like it or not. Before Sylvia makes her final decision, smoldering racial tension in the town ignites into flame. When the smoke clears, she sees clearly that nothing is going to stop the change from coming. It is up to her generation to make it happen, in as many different ways as there are colors in the world.

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Original Title:	Fire from the Rock
ISBN:	0525477209 (ISBN13: 9780525477204)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Arkansas(United States)

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Great historical fiction novel set during 1957 in Little Rock, Arkansas amidst the time of integration. The book is based on the nine students who were part of the first movement toward integration. Sylvia, fictional character, is chosen by her teacher as one of the students who will be integrating the all-white school. As she works to overcome her fears and make her family proud she wonders if she is really up to the task of being a hero.

I loved this book because it's written with honesty and sincerity. Sharon Draper is my new favorite author. Mainly because she deals with topics that need to be dealt with. Her books are written with class. I spent some time thinking DJ's voice was too mature for her actual age of 8 but then I realized she grew up in time period where children went through so much and perhaps the voice that you were hearing is the maturity that she had gained through experience and seeing things that a child her

It can be a daring thing to attempt to write a historical novel that is set during a divisive and polarizing time in our history. Especially when the particular subject could be seen as potentially insensitive if not accomplished well. The author, Sharon Draper, does indeed accomplish it well because she not only KNOWS her subject matter intimately, but she has the eyes and ears of a skilled educator who knows how young adults learn. Her novel is well detailed and vivid in it's emotions of



Sylvia Faye has been selected to be put on a very important list... a list that help change the country. It is 1957, and Sylvia lives in Little Rock, AR. She has been chosen to be one of the students to integrate the "White" Central High School. Sylvia is finishing her junior high years, and Draper has created a not-just-your-normal coming of age novel. Sylvia is growing up, and she is doing the normal growing up things like getting her first boyfriend, maintaining her good grades and being

An important book about the forced integration of Little Rock's schools in the late 1950's. Once again I find Draper's desire to "teach" us through her character's dialogue forced and unnatural. All in all, though, a compelling story that surprised me with some of its plot twists.

The plot The plot of the story is set in little rock, arkansas in the 1950s, when school segregation was still a thing but then this girl named sylvia faye was then told that she was chosen to be the first colored girl to get integrated to a new school that has all white kids going to it and sylvia is scared to go to this new school because she was scared that she was going to end up like her brother gary and get hurt like he did, but gary said he would never let that happen Writing style/