GENRE: Young Adult, Historical
PUBLISHED: Clairon (Oct 25, 2011)
PUBLISHED: Clairon (Oct 25, 2011)
MY RATING: 4
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SYNOPSIS:
A powerful novel about growing up black on the World War II
home front in the Jim Crow South. Caleb lives in a world at war. War news is on
everyone’s mind, and Caleb’s older brother, Randall, is likely to be sent
overseas. The presence of German POWs in Caleb’s rural Georgia community is a
constant reminder of what’s happening in Europe. Locked in a power struggle
with his domineering father and fighting to keep both his temper and his
self-respect in dealing with whites, Caleb finds his loyalties shifting and his
certainties slipping away. This coming-of-age story, set in a time before the
civil rights movement emerged, traces one young man’s growing commitment to
justice and to the courage needed to protect it.