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353 pp.
| Scholastic |
October, 2013 |
TradeISBN 978-0-545-46440-6$16.99
(4)
YA
Twelve-year-old Red Porter is proud of his (white) family's heritage in 1970s small-town Virginia. The novel turns into a treatise on the relevance of history after Red discovers more than he bargained for about his family's past. It's a patchwork of a story with too many pieces, including the death of Emmett Till and the various legacies of slavery.
Reviewer: Dean Schneider
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
September, 2013