Description
It's 1964, and Sunny's town is
being invaded. Or at least that's what the adults of Greenwood,
Mississippi are saying. All Sunny knows is that people from up north are
coming to help people register to vote. They're calling it Freedom
Summer.
Meanwhile, Sunny can't help but feel like her house is being
invaded, too. She has a new stepmother, a new brother, and a new sister
crowding her life, giving her little room to breathe. And things get
even trickier when Sunny and her brother are caught sneaking into the
local swimming pool -- where they bump into a mystery boy whose life is
going to become tangled up in theirs.
As she did in her
groundbreaking documentary novel COUNTDOWN award-winning author Deborah
Wiles uses stories and images to tell the riveting story of a certain
time and place -- and of kids who, in a world where everyone is choosing
sides, must figure out how to stand up for themselves and fight for
what's right.
Deborah Wiles was born in Alabama and grew up in an Air Force family,
moving many times but digging deep roots into the Mississippi soil of
her extended family. She still travels "down South" today from her
longtime home in Frederick, Maryland, where she lives with her family
and works as a freelance writer. She also teaches writing and oral
history workshops--sharing with children how all history is really
biography, and how every person's story is important. Freedom Summer is
her first book.
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