Sunny’s town is being invaded by college students and people
fighting for civil rights. Sunny is
twelve years old, it’s 1964 in Mississippi, and the law says that African
Americans have the right to vote.
However, lots of people in Mississippi aren’t happy about it and people
in Sunny’s town are divided. Many people
are members of the Ku Klux Klan or just want everything to stay the same while
other white people support the right for everyone to vote. Many black people are too scared to do
anything but others want to fight. Sunny
doesn’t understand exactly what’s going on but she knows that some of the
violence she has seen against the African Americans in her town, especially by
police officers, isn’t right. Caught up
in her feelings about her mother, who left when she was a baby, and her
feelings about her new, blended family since her father remarried, Sunny has
been having a very mixed up summer. This
is a really good historical fiction story that brings to life some of the
tension and violence of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi. There is some information about the end about
some of the other facts surrounding why it was particularly bad there. Kids who like historical fiction will
probably like it.
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