What an interesting read.  Most students know or learn about segregated schools in the South.  Ruby Bridges is a heroic name.  But this reader had never heard about schools trying to segregate in California, in order to keep the mexican school children away from the white ones.  The reason the school board gave was a language barrier, which a lawsuit named for Roberto Alverez proved was intentional racism.  This was a wonderful story and the illustrations are fitting and feel like California in the 1930s.