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School Library Journal
Reviewed on September 1, 2011 | Grades 5-up
Gr 4–6—It is 1959, and nine-year-old Bobby's mother decides to make a vacation out of driving Grandma from Ohio back to her Florida home with planned stops at various Civil War battlefields and landmarks. Parallel to this narrative of a white middle-class family is one of a Southern African-American family. Nine-year-old Jacob is under the care and tutelage of his older sister and her husband in Atlanta, struggling to live within their Jim Crow environment and conscious about not making waves outside t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2011
In 1959, Bobby and his family (who are white) are driving from Ohio to Florida, visiting Civil War battlefields along the way. Interspe...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Junior Library Guild
Reviewed on September 1, 2011
Tony Abbott’s thought-provoking depiction of race relations in 1950s America is enlightening without being didactic, familiar but never clichéd. Two intersecting plotlines, presented from multiple points of view, propel the reader forward. The narratives overlap only briefly, when Bobby witnesses an act of discrim...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
