Laura and her best friend, Sage, are picked on at school
because they are overweight. Laura
mostly tries to not let it bother her, but Sage sometimes gets upset because
she wants to be popular. Laura’s parents
are going to have to leave for two weeks for Army Reserves training and while
Laura is going to miss them, she is excited that her Aunt Carmen is coming to
stay with her. At the last minute, her
aunt cancels and Laura is horrified to find out that she is going to stay with
her grandmother instead. On her
grandmother’s property is an old slave shack.
The shack embarrasses Laura and she has never been in it. Then her teacher surprises everyone with a
field trip to the shack. Laura doesn’t
want any of her classmates to see the shack and tries to think of ways to get
the trip cancelled. Her teacher makes a
deal with her. If she will go in and the
shack and can’t find even one amazing thing then she will cancel the trip. Laura agrees, sure that there is nothing in
the shack that is amazing, but she might be surprised by what she finds about
her family, and all of her female ancestors that make up the Laura Line. A good contemporary story about growing up
and being bullied with some interesting historical information thrown in. A lot of older elementary kids would probably
like this story.
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