4.19 avg rating — 811,861 ratings

"This book had a real sense of time and place. The characters were real and engaging. They felt like people you would really know."

4.47 avg rating — 3,025,707 ratings

"I loved the balance of frustration and humor. It shines a light on accepted everyday social injustices as the civil rights movement was just beginning. "

4.10 avg rating — 1,354,046 ratings

"I loved the story told in the voice of a young white girl in 1964 when blacks got the vote and the turmoil that followed. It also follows her journey to learn about her mother who died when she was very young, and her escape from an emotionally abusive father.
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