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Glory Be By Augusta Scattergood Scholastic Press, 2012, 208 pp., $16.99 Historical Fiction/Civil Rights/Families ISBN: 978-0545331807 In the hot, sticky summer of 1964, we find ourselves pushing the sweat off our foreheads next to an energetic, soon to be twelve-year-old girl, Gloriana June Hemphill (Glory). The daughter of a preacher and a Nancy Drew in training, Glory takes it upon herself to investigate the closing of the community pool. Readers soon discover that the pool has fewer cracks than the citizen’s keeping its gates closed. Not all residents of Hanging Moss, Mississippi are ready to accept the changes the country has in store. Glory finds out the hard way that the color of one’s skin is not equal in everyone’s eyes. Augusta Scattergood’s Glory Be provides a perfect introduction for young readers to sink their teeth into serious issues of ignorance and racism. Scattergood shows readers the importance of fighting for what is right, even when others do not agree. Small, eleven-year-old Glory, with hair that looks “like it hadn’t seen the right side of a brush all day” (Scattergood 28), learns to stand up for her beliefs. With a loud voice and no fear, she does what it takes to be heard. She won’t stop until the truth is exposed in the sun. Reviewed by Katlynn Bennett (Bayonne, New Jersey) http://www.alan-ya.org/publications/alan-picks/alan-picks-july-2013/ |