Kristin Levine
Författare till The Lions of Little Rock
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Kristin Levine debut novel was The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had, which was featured on the American Library Association¿s 2010 list of Best Books for Young Adults. She received the New York Historical Society¿s Children¿s History Book Prize for The Lions of Little Rock novel. (Bowker Author visa mer Biography) visa färre
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- Födelsedag
- 20th century
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- female
- Utbildning
- Swarthmore College
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- 5
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- 1,586
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- #16,264
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- 4.2
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- 142
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The story's told by Dit, one of ten children, who is just your average kid until he befriends the daughter of the town's new postmaster: a super smart girl named Emma, who is black. Because it's 1918 and rural Alabama, their friendship is uncomfortable for many townspeople, both black and white. But it evolves naturally. Emma helps Dit with school. Dit teaches Emma, a city girl, how to play baseball. There's not a whole lot of plot until a fight between the awful white sheriff and a kind black barber results in a crime that rocks the small town--and Dit and Emma get involved in setting things right.
Because the chapters were short and filled with great details, I didn't mind at all that it took the story some time to get going. First-time author Levine was so great at setting the scene that the climax was ultimately pretty believable (which is rare in these kinds of books). Dit's moral development, and his understanding of race relations and history, never felt preachy or didactic.
This is one of those books that will be equally enjoyable for girls and boys, I think. While it is indeed about racism (the n-word is used quite a bit), it's also about friendship between a boy and a girl, and how bonding with a person who's different from you can change your life. In that way, it reminded me of [b:Bridge to Terabithia|2839|Bridge to Terabithia|Katherine Paterson|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1161661043s/2839.jpg|2237401], which is a pretty high compliment in my book.… (mer)