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Starred Review on June 1, 2017 | Middle School
Gr 5–8—Sophie is a 12-year-old African American girl living in 1965 Los Angeles. She is extremely intelligent, gifted, and determined. With two professional parents and a sister on her way to a historically black college, Sophie is living a middle-class life in her mostly white neighborhood and struggling to find acceptance among her peers. Friendship formation and creative ambitions are thwarted by bigotry, but her inner strength leaves her undaunte...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on July 1, 2017
The daughter of an art gallery-owning mother and a lawyer father, twelve-year-old Sophie has advantages most children her age do not. However, the summer of 1965 in Los Angeles brings challenges no amount of money can fix. Sophie must navigate her older sister preparing to leave for college, her parents' continual arguments, and the family's overly critical housekeeper. Not to mention that Sophie's is the only African American family in an otherwise al...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on March 1, 2018
The daughter of an art gallery-owning mother and a lawyer father, twelve-year-old Sophie has advantages most children her age do not. However, the summer of 1965 in Los Angeles brings challenges no amount of money can fix. Sophie must navigate her older sister preparing to leave for college, her parents' continual arguments, and the family's overly critical housekeeper. Not to mention that Sophie's is the only African American family in an otherwise al...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
