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The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. DurrowMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
The Girl Who Fell From The Sky by Heidi W. Durrow
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky is a fiction novel that follows the topic of social justice. It follows an eleven-year-old biracial girl named Rachel who is now living with her grandmother and aunt after a traumatic event in her family left her by herself. Roger, Rachel’s father, is a G.I who is gone on a trip, Rachel is anxiously waiting for her father to come back for her, but her family is unsure he will. Rachel, growing up with a white mother, finds herself struggling to fit into her new community which is a mostly black population and with the other African American girls.
This is the first book I’ve ever read by Heidi Durrow but it certainly won’t be the last. Heidi Durrow’s writing style helped hold my interest in this book, especially the way she chose to format this book. Throughout the entire book instead of chapters you get alternating perspectives. It starts with Rachel setting the scene of the story, letting the reader know where she is and gives a vague idea of why. Then continues with other critical characters that help give the reader a sense of what the traumatic event was and why it ever occurred.
Although this book wasn’t challenging in a vocabulary sense since this book randomly throws new characters at you, at what feels like random times, end up having a large impact on the storyline. I would say this book was challenging in the sense that you have to focus on small details surrounding each character to fully understand the storyline. I highly recommend this book and believe anyone 13 and over would too.
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