Revolution (The Sixties Trilogy #2)

by Deborah Wiles

Hardcover, 2014

Library's review

This documentary novel, set during Freedom Summer in Greenwood, Mississippi, is narrated by 12-year-old Sunny, a white girl, and Raymond, a black teenager. Historic photographs, essays, and song lyrics enrich the narrative. Author’s Note, Bibliography.

Publication

Scholastic Press (2014), 544 pages

Description

Historical Fiction. Young Adult Fiction. HTML: 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..… (more)

Awards

National Book Award (Finalist — Young People's Literature — 2014)
Golden Kite Award (Winner — Fiction — 2015)
Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award (Finalist — Finalist — 2015)

Language

Original language

English

Pages

544

Physical description

544 p.; 8.4 inches

ISBN

0545106079 / 9780545106078

DDC/MDS

813.6
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