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This book was actually an assigned summer reading book, for school, and I ended up really liking it! It was an easy read for me, because the font was big, there were some pictures included, and there was only about 100 somethin' pages. Lynda Blackmon is writing about herself as a 14/15 year old girl during the civil rights movement, and her personal, and physical, journey to Montgomery, from Selma, Alabama. I like that in the book, when everybody came, all races, to start marching to Montgomery, that Lynda just kept saying, "there was a different feeling in Selma now," because she isn't really being specific, but she is letting you interpret it, which I like in books. Open-ended-ness. I would recommend this book if you would like to hear a different, more personal, perspective in the march for freedom, or if you would like to learn a little more on the topic, or even just to read for the sake of reading.
Samantha, 6th grade, Cambridge Street Upper School
