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A review by lauraellis
Zora and Me by Victoria Bond, T.R. Simon
4.0
This is a great book aimed at 4th-6th graders, a historical fiction/mystery about a young Zora Neale Hurston and her friend Carrie Brown, who stumble upon a murder as they go about their daily lives in turn-of-the-last-Century Eatonville, an all black town in the South. The language was beautiful and evocative of Ms Hurston’s language in Their Eyes Were Watching God.
It was very interesting to see the lives of these young African-American girls in the day-to-day, somewhat sheltered by their town but with the effects of the outer white-ruled world impinging. I’m so glad I read this book.
This was my choice for the elementary/middle-school book that has won a diversity prize in the 2019 Book Riot’s Read Harder Challenge.
It was very interesting to see the lives of these young African-American girls in the day-to-day, somewhat sheltered by their town but with the effects of the outer white-ruled world impinging. I’m so glad I read this book.
This was my choice for the elementary/middle-school book that has won a diversity prize in the 2019 Book Riot’s Read Harder Challenge.