She Wanted To Read

By Ella K. Carruth

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0687383536
• ISBN13: 9780687383535
• Release Date: March 1966
• Publisher: Abingdon Press
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Every child should have this story read to them

When I was in fourth grade our teacher read this story to us. I was so touched by it, that at the end of the school year my teacher gave me her copy.Several years later I found that during moves I had misplaced this book. I found another...I cherish this book very much. I just finished reading this story to my second grade daughter. She learned so much about how life was and how life should be. I think it is a wonderful expression of how everyone should and can get along in this world.

I felt her pain and cheered when she paraded across campus

I picked the very thin book up at the ASU "kitty lit" library, mid quarter, early 1973. I needed a book for oral review and I needed one I could read in a hurry. I was mother of four, wife for their dad, working part-time and going to college. It had to be read for tomorrow's oral report. After supper, dishes still on the table, I pulled the book out of my book bag. The first page got my undivided attention. A couple pages and I was tearing. About middle ways I was sobbing. I couldn't see the large print to read through the tears. I stopped, tried to compose myself and stop the tears so I could read on. The kids and their dad were in the other room; they would think the stress had finally brought on the breakdown. I read on. Finally, she had broke through the impossible and had brought freedom of reading to Black Women. I felt her pain. I felt the joy of her success. With tears streaming from my eyes, amid sobs and laughters I stood and cheered her success as she lead the march across campus to make a stand for the freedom of education. Class time and my time to do my report. The title and author identified, the book in my hand, I started my report. Tears welled up, my throat tightened, I felt a sob coming on ... "just read it," I said, holding the book up for the class to see. Mary McLeod Bethune should be every Black Woman's hero. She sure is this White Woman's.

My First Book

My mother rewarded me for the completion of fourth grade with SHE WANTED TO READ; THE STORY OF MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE. And because of all of the wonderful accomplishments that Mary McLeod Bethune did as an educator I was motivated to be an educator as well. This was the first book that held my attention enough to complete it in one sitting. I have never forgotten the story of Mrs Bethune's courage and dignity. Because of this book Mary McLeod became an inspiration for me to become an educator.