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School Library Journal
Reviewed on February 1, 2012 | Grades 5-up
Gr 5–8—Spunky, engaging Gloriana Hemphill, 11, describes the "freedom summer" of 1964 in Hanging Moss, MS, where winds of social change are beginning to upset the status quo. In a series of eye-opening adventures, Glory learns that her sheltered life as a preacher's kid has overshadowed her awareness of injustice and intolerance in her town. When the segregated community pool is closed indefinitely, her predictable world is upended. A new girl arrives from Ohio with her mother, a nurse who will be running a Freedom Clinic for poor black people. Big sister Jesslyn's new boyfriend...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2012
Glory doesn't understand what's happening in her Mississippi hometown during the "Freedom Summer" of 1964. Difficult and changing re...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
