A review by elllie
Dear America: Behind the Masks by Susan Patron

3.0

Not bad. While it was told in diary style, it didn't really feel like a diary, it felt like a full-blown first-person narrative. They are not specific about what happens in the dancing ladies house, so I think that'd kind of go over most kids' heads (but they'd get that it makes the ladies disreputable to the respectable ladies), but I think they do say "whore" at one point, making this a book you'd have to know the parents to feel like you can give it to the kids.