Tru & Nelle by G. Neri, 328 pages
“In their small town of Monroeville,
Alabama, in 1930, misfits Tru and Nelle strike up a friendship and find a
mystery to solve when someone breaks into the drugstore and steals some candy
and a fancy brooch.” This
was a simplistic story that I’m not sure would appeal to kids as much as I wish
it would. The parallels between this
book about Harper Lee and Truman Capote as children and Lee’s “To Kill A
Mockingbird” were fascinating to me but this book is aimed at kids who are
mostly too young to have read Lee’s book yet.
I liked it and if a kid liked historically realistic books I would
probably give this to them but I’m not sure if it has much general appeal.
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