Through My Eyes Author:Ruby Bridges A beautiful, moving book that captures the intensity of the south in the early 1960's. Sepia photos and Ruby's own words enable the reader to walk with her as she enters first grade in New Orleans: the first black student in an all-white school in 1961. Ruby's recollections of that year and her present-day thoughts about her early li... more »fe are honest and memorable. This book will make for great reading for early adolescents and will be an important addition to classroom and library collections.« less