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A review by mnreadingmama
Hand in Hand by Katie Proctor
3.0
This book tells the story of two young girls, one white, one black, bonding over books and forming a friendship in the 1940s in the midst of the Jim Crow South.
The book deals with topics of racism, discrimination, friendship and loyalty. It would be a good book to introduce some of these topics to a young reader and would certainly lead to many meaningful conversations.
I didn’t like it as much as Proctor’s debut, My Storied Year, and the lessons seemed pretty heavy-handed as an adult reader, but I do think it would be good to put into the hands of a middle grade reader.
The book deals with topics of racism, discrimination, friendship and loyalty. It would be a good book to introduce some of these topics to a young reader and would certainly lead to many meaningful conversations.
I didn’t like it as much as Proctor’s debut, My Storied Year, and the lessons seemed pretty heavy-handed as an adult reader, but I do think it would be good to put into the hands of a middle grade reader.