Book Review of “Fire From The Rock”

Two of our students wrote a collaborative review of Fire From The Rock that will be published in an upcoming issue of IndyKids! Check it out below!

Review of Fire from the Rock by Ryan & Kayla

Fire from the Rock by Sharon Draper is a historical fiction novel about a young 14 year old African American growing up in Little Rock, Arkansas in the 1950`s. During that time schools were segregated between white and black students and Sylvia is chosen as one of the students to integrate the all-white Little Rock Central High School. Sylvia has a hard time deciding weather or not to be one of the first to integrate, experiencing first hand the obstacles the civil rights movement. Her family, the townspeople, and her friends pull her in different directions, everyone giving their opinion on what she should do. Sylvia’s experiences of racism in the south are based on true events, which makes the book very emotional. To find out if Sylvia decides to go to integrate Little Rock Central or not you will have to read the book to find out! We highly recommended because it is more complicated then most fiction books and highlights one of the most important movements of the last century.

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