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A review by sarahannkateri
Revolution by Deborah Wiles
4.0
Listen to this book! Seriously! A+ for the collage of song, sound and speech that is the audiobook. Now, for the book itself...
Sunny is 12, and her biggest plans for the summer involve winning the big prize for memorizing bible verses at vacation bible school and swimming at the city pool and getting tan with her friends. Then "the invaders" come to town and begin mobilizing all the Negroes to vote and everything becomes crazy. The whole country begins calling it the Freedom Summer, the pool shuts down, and Sunny begins to realize there is more going on outside her comfortable family's life...
But Sunny's version of the Freedom Summer isn't the only one out there in her town, and another young teen named Raymond is seeing his own 1964: One with discrimination and guns, and danger...
Great multiple narrator historific about Jim Crow and the Freedom Summer wherein Sunny is relatively bratty and entitled, and her brother Gilette is a little bland, Ray is passionate and sympathetic. The audiobook is engaging, but the book itself is looooong, and seeing the size might be a hard sell for kids. Still, worth it for those willing to tackle historical fiction.
Sunny is 12, and her biggest plans for the summer involve winning the big prize for memorizing bible verses at vacation bible school and swimming at the city pool and getting tan with her friends. Then "the invaders" come to town and begin mobilizing all the Negroes to vote and everything becomes crazy. The whole country begins calling it the Freedom Summer, the pool shuts down, and Sunny begins to realize there is more going on outside her comfortable family's life...
But Sunny's version of the Freedom Summer isn't the only one out there in her town, and another young teen named Raymond is seeing his own 1964: One with discrimination and guns, and danger...
Great multiple narrator historific about Jim Crow and the Freedom Summer wherein Sunny is relatively bratty and entitled, and her brother Gilette is a little bland, Ray is passionate and sympathetic. The audiobook is engaging, but the book itself is looooong, and seeing the size might be a hard sell for kids. Still, worth it for those willing to tackle historical fiction.