Because We Are

by Mildred Pitts Walter

After a misunderstanding with a white teacher, black honor student Emma is transferred from the integrated high school where she has excelled to a segregated school where she finds a different kind of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688022871
• ISBN13: 9780688022877
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Age Range: 11 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 6 and higher

Customer Reviews

Temper, Temper

This book is about how a girl who is excellent in writing, but is always getting in trouble with her hazardous temper. She got suspended to Manning High School and now after she finally made good friends she has to make new ones. While she's doing that, she has to handle one of her teachers, Mr. Kooner. Mr. Kooner is like a dog, he makes the students scramble for their books. He drops them on the floor and students have to get down a wrestle for there books because he doesn't have enough. Of course she doesn't join the scramble because she's not like them. See what Emma does to stop Mr. Kooner, and for good.

Think your life�s a mess; well check this girl out

The book Because We Are is about a girl named Emma. She is an African American girl and a senior in high school who goes to a predominately white upper class school. She hangs out with the other few blacks at her school. She has a white boyfriend who is not giving her what she deserves and she has parents whom a couple years ago got divorced. So her life?s is pretty average as far as teenagers life goes. When one day a sudden outburst at school gets her sent to the principal?s office and transferred to a school a lot closer but not as respected called manning. She is afraid that she won?t fit in with al the blacks that are not as fortunate as she is. She is also afraid that the golden slippers will not let her become a debutante. She befriends a guy named Allan and starts to relax a little. Will everything pan out will Emma become a debutante will she graduate find out in this awesome book. Read it you will be surprised how much you will like it.I would give it five out of five stars.

Why Me?

Interesting is what I would call this book. The reason I would call this book interesting is because it is about a black 18-year-old girl who goes to an almost all white school. It all starts with a white boy who makes fun of Emma in one of her National Honor Society meetings and a teacher won't do anything about it. After the meeting is over she is really mad at both the teacher, for not doing anything to the boy who made fun of her, and the boy, because he made fun of her, but after her meeting she goes to her English class anyway. Once she arrives in English class she remembers that she forgot to do an assignment that was do that day. Then once that class was over she went to lunch were she sees her English teacher. Once the teacher sees Emma she comes over to talk to her, and she put hand on Emma's shoulder, but Emma pushes her hand away and tells her to stop it. The teacher ends up taking it the wrong way and sends her to the principal's office. After she gets to the principal's office the principal talks to the teacher that sent her to the office, and then talks to Emma? It ends up that Emma has to go to another school because of what she did. At the end Emma realizes how much her education, teachers, friends, and parents mean to her, so then she tries her hardest to get a scholarship to a good school. At the end her friend Marvin gets a scholarship, but will Emma?