Lions of Little Rock

By Kristin Levine

Lions of Little Rock takes place in 1958 when they still had segregation in Little rock, Arkansas.The main character Marlee goes to a white school. One day a new girl came and joined Marlee’s class. Marlee is a very shy girl she is not social at all she never talks to anybody. The only person Marlee ever talks to is her sister and her dad she rarely talks to her mom. Then the worst thing happens to Marlee her sister has to move to  Pine Bluff.  That is like losing your best friend to Marlee. Then the next day the teacher makes the new girl introduce herself. Her name is Elizabeth Nickname: Liz. Liz is a very adventurous girl. A few weeks later Liz and Marlee became best friends. Then one day Liz was not at school then the mean girl sally said I think i saw her yesterday holding a black kids hand. Then the next day Marlee went to the zoo to see if Liz was there Marlee saw a strange person sitting on the bench it was Liz! Soon it was Halloween Liz and Marlee were supposed to go trick or treating together. When Marlee was on her way she bumped into  Liz. Liz was with her little brother Tommy when they saw the big bully RED with his younger brother James Thomas(JT) they were throwing eggs at Marlee’s old teacher. A little while later Tommy was at baseball practice and Liz and Marlee went to the rock crusher Red and JT followed them and Red pushed Marlee ave and Marlee hit her knee on something. What? Read the book to find.