A review by readwithpassion
Mare's War by Tanita S. Davis

3.0

Tali and Octavia set off on a road trip with their quirky grandmother, Mare. They are both quite unexcited to be spending their summer with her, but the road trip proves to be very enlightening for them. The chapters are labeled "Then" (Mare's story) and "Now" (Modern day). Mare tells the girls about her experiences as a black female in the segregated WAC (Women's Army Corp) during WWII. It provides a great amount of historical details. I never know about Claudette Colvin, a black woman who refused to give up her seat before Rosa Parks. Mare tells that this woman never became famous because she later became pregnant by a married man and wasn't a good poster image of civil rights. I found the historical information to be very interesting, but there were points of the story that weren't very engaging for me, thus the rating of three stars.