A review by allmadhere106
Freedom Summer by Deborah Wiles

4.0

This book shows a friendship between a white boy and an African American boy growing up in the South when the segregation laws were beginning to break down. The two boys discuss these issues briefly when there is a harsh instance of prejudice, but for the most part everything is shown as simply being the way it is. I wish that there would have been more discussion in the actual narrative about what was really going on, but in a lot of ways it helped to have it told from a child's perspective with their sensibilities. I think this would be a great book to discuss segregation and growing up in this time period, but I also think that the adult reading it would have to explain and share with the child. I think it can definitely be done, but the adult has to be ready to put that work in.