It All Comes Down to This by Karen English

Title: It All Comes Down to This
By: Karen English
Published: 2017
Call #: YA Fiction English, K.

It’s the summer before her freshmen year in high school in 1965.  Sophie is planning on writing, hanging out with friends and just having a good time, but life and the rest of the world starts to get in the way her plans.  First, the reality of racism really starts to set in for Sophie as she continually encounters prejudice in her almost all-white community; from being uninvited to pool parties to being accused of stealing.  Her parents aren’t much help because they’re busy with their own lives and trying to salvage their marriage. Luckily, her older sister has always has her back, but that will change at the end of the summer when her sister leaves for college.   Suddenly life isn’t as clear cut as she thought it was and once a close friend is arrested for no reason Sophie finds herself questioning things even more.  An excellent piece of historical fiction that rings very true in today’s world.

 

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Tags: historical fiction, high school, Civil Rights, race, middle school