Scattergood, Augusta
Glory Be, 199 pgs.
Scholastic Press, 2012.
$16.99 Content: Language:
G; Mature Content: G; Violence: PG.
Glory is the daughter of the local preacher and during the summer of
1964, living in the south brings with it a lot changes. Glory is excited to celebrate her 12th
birthday at the local swimming pool and is disappointed by the town council’s
decision to close the pool to keep out the blacks. She befriends a new girl whose mother is visiting her small
Mississippi town as one of the Freedom workers, and her new friendship disrupts
Glory’s old friendship with her best friend Frankie because his father is very
prejudice. Glory is also
struggling with her sister Jesslyn, because Jessie is growing up and has found
herself a boyfriend, so their sisterhood is changing. Throughout the change in this short summer, Glory comes of
age and stays true to what she believes and learns more about herself and those
in her town.
I’m torn about my
review of this book because it had an interesting historical setting, but I
didn’t love the main character. I
also felt like the historical parts of this book needed to be explained, it was
assumed that the reader knew what was going on in Mississippi during this time
in the Civil Rights Movement and I don’t think the young audience this book was
directed towards would have that kind of knowledge base. To me this book was almost good, it was
almost really good, but it was missing the character development that would
have made it great.
EL (4-6),
MS-OPTIONAL. Reviewer, C. Peterson.
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