A review by imperfectcj
Day of Tears by Julius Lester

challenging emotional informative sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Perhaps not the wisest choice emotionally to listen to on the day of armed insurrection at the US Capitol, but this was a very good "novel in dialogue." It's a selection from the Level 5 Build Your Library booklist and a little intense for my 11-year-old. We had to have a few conversations and will probably have a few more in the future to process a lot of this fictionalized story about the largest slave sale in US history.