Alexander gets bullied because he carries a lot of books, is tall, and enjoys art, they call him “Suitcase” and “Seemore”. Alexander gets bullied by a few of his classmates, Ronnie and his friends in a school located in New York. The main character Alexander is very tall, he likes art, and is nerdy looking.
It tells just how far the nation has come, and - because of its sensitivity to the feelings of both races - just how much further we may hope to go together.The book I choose to red over the summer is “Suitcase” by Mildred Pitts Walter.
Well crafted and focused, sizzling with details appropriate to her teen audience, Walter's book is more than a reminder of the courage of Elizabeth and her guardian. Walter tells her story from two points of view - that of the confused, rich Sophia, who dreads the ''invasion'' of her sweet white world, and of the trusting Eva, a black teen-ager who consents to go first so that others will have a choice to go. Will the court allow black teen-agers to climb the steps to the city's exclusively white high school? Using ''Mossville'' as the setting of her new novel, Mildred Pitts Walter traces two communities as they wait for a judge's decision in a case similar to Little Rock's. Twenty-one days later, nine black students succeeded in penetrating the white bastion and initiated an era of school desegregation in the South. But her story reached beyond Little Rock to a shocked and outraged nation. Aided by only one defiant woman, Grace Lorch, a non-Southern white, Elizabeth was drenched in spit by the time she staggered back to a city bus, which carried her to safety. The event is history: the state's National Guard turned its bayonets on the advancing girl, denied her entrance, and forced her back into the hostile crowd. A 15-year-old black girl, Elizabeth Eckford, was about to take her first brave steps toward fulfillment of a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) plan for the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Ark. ''The Girl on the Outside,'' a teen novel based largely on the true story of a 1957 desegregation case, takes the reader back to events that came in the wake of a US Supreme Court decision overturning 65 years of ''separate but equal'' education for black and white students. They gave no sign of whether they were for or against the antagonistic, all-white crowd. Stolid and unspeaking, with gleaming bayonets at their sides, the guardsmen waited outside the high school.
Until the final moment, the leering mob was uncertain.
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