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Release Date: September 29, 2020
Author:Andrea Davis Pinkney
Illustator: Brian Pinkney
Narrators: Dashawn Barnes, Deborah Wilson, Ralph Harris
Genre: Juvenile Fiction, Middle Grade, Historical Fiction
Publishers: Little Brown Books for Young Readers
Told from three generations perspectives. Loretta, Roly, and Aggie B. are part of the Little family. This is there experiences each from there own eyes.
Loretta is the youngest of her siblings and her mother died shortly after she was born. Her father works in the cotton field during the Jim Crow era. They have struggles like most black people in Mississippi at this time. She loves school and devours the knowledge thrust upon her until she is no longer able to go because she is needed at home.
Roly is adopted into the Little family by the sisters. They raise him up and are good to him. He too ends up working the fields. He marries and they have little baby Aggie B.
Aggie B. is a smart girl like Loretta. She is determined to help her people during this time in the civil rights movements.
This is a great book that looks at life through the eyes of three children throughout the civil rights movement. This is after slavery is abolished but during the Jim Crow laws and civil rights movements of Martin Luther King.
I listened to the audio book of this from my library the second time around. I was originally given this as an eARC by NetGalley. I read it but apparently never posted a review for it. I thought I had but here we are.
I think they did a great job with this audio book narration.
This would be a great book to read during lessons on these issues for classroom reading or homeschool. It was written well and has enough facts in it to help grow some knowledge while being engaging enough for children to enjoy without become I guess bored of dry facts. Not a replacement for history lessons but a great supplement to go along with it.
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