Say You Are My Sister

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Summary: A wonderful book
Review: SAY YOU ARE MY SISTER is a beautifully-written book about family, hardships, loyalty and conscience; yet it is full of good humor and suspense. Mony is an endearing character--a literary cousin of Scout in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. She's frank and funny and brave.

This is the kind of book that could spark some thoughtful discussion in the classroom about our country's history of racial discrimination. I bought a copy for my children's school library.

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Summary: Fall in love with Mony and her sisters!!!
Review: You won't be able to help yourself as you follow their struggles to survive a series of heartbreaking tragedies that leave them to fend for themselves in a small town in the deep south still caught in the grip of the Jim Crow "Whites Only" laws.

Told in the wonderfully fresh, funny, and spunky voice of 12-year-old Mony Keddrington, I found myself laughing one minute and wiping tears from my eyes the next.

I felt like I was right there with Mony as she and her sister Georgie used ingenuity, guts, and spirit trying to survive as a family, all the while harboring an explosive secret that threatened to destroy everything they ever held dear.

This is the best book I have read since Cold Sassy Tree at evoking the genuine feel of the south. I can't believe Laurel Stowe Brady is a first-time novelist, she writes with so much authority. I will be looking for everything she ever writes as it comes out!!