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A review by blvrread
Finding My Place by Traci L. Jones
4.0
A story about a Black teenage girl, Tiphanie Baker, moving out to a suburb where she went to school full of Whites! She is the only of the two students in her new school who are Blacks. Finding her pace and place, she was struggling to fit in as a girl of a different colour. Being ignored a whole week as a new student, she found herself feeling so lonely and out of place until Jackie Sue came and greet her as a "loser" in a funny way. They became close since then.
This novel might be an easy read, fast paced and for young readers, though it actually discussed a lot on racism, where it was placed in 1975. The stigmatisation towards the Blacks were still tough (it can be seen that the "White" characters were not bluntly racist, but they were rather stick to the old belief of Blacks that made them scared to get close with them), but somehow the Bakers proved them wrong through their politeness and professionalism.
This novel might be an easy read, fast paced and for young readers, though it actually discussed a lot on racism, where it was placed in 1975. The stigmatisation towards the Blacks were still tough (it can be seen that the "White" characters were not bluntly racist, but they were rather stick to the old belief of Blacks that made them scared to get close with them), but somehow the Bakers proved them wrong through their politeness and professionalism.