by Kristin Levine
I loved the friendship between Dit and Emma in this novel. Dit was hoping a boy would step off the train when it rolled into town but unfortunately a girl named Emma hopped off. Not just any girl either, this girl and her family were Negras. With his best friend Chip at his grandmothers all summer, ...
Rather than paint a black versus white picture of the pre-civil-rights South, Levine uses the story of the friendship between a black teenage girl and a white teenage boy to explore the different shades of prejudice of the time period. Everything from acceptance to the ugliest bigotry is present.The...
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