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The Indigo Girl by Natasha Boyd
4.0

I was already happy with The Indigo Girl by Natasha Boyd when it was coming to the end but then I read the Author's Note and found out it is based on a true story. This made me like it even more! Eliza Lucas was a strong, independent young woman at a time when such a thing was scorned and not valued. Her obsession (and I think we can safely call it that) and perseverance in trying to produce indigo ended up being revolutionary for the colonies.

Natasha Boyd also drops hints of the building discord between the Colonies and England that will eventually culminate in the American Revolution. For not being an historian, I think Boyd did an amazing job telling Eliza's story in a surprisingly short book.