Belle Teal

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Summary: Belle Teal
Review: Belle Teal was an awesome book, I really enjoyed it. It is about this girl named Belle Teal, she lives with her grandma and mom. They are poor. Her and her best friend have been waiting to get Miss Casey to be their teacher. Then they finally got her. They love her very much. The more she started going to school the more she started going to school the more she got more and more friends. One night she asked her mom about negros,but then she changed the subject really fast. She asked that because her best friend, Darryl was black and they didn't want Belle Teal coming to their house very much longer at the beginning. This is the best book I read so far of the civil rights movement. This is only some of it. One story element is the setting. The setting mostly takes place in school with all of her friends.

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Summary: Belle Teal
Review: I read this book with my mother and we both enjoyed the book alot, because it was a touching peice about a girl who lives with her mother and grandmother. Other charcters in the book is a rich mean girl but the reason she is mean is because her mother was dead then there is a black boy named Darel, and Darl and Belle become friends. I liked it alot and i enjoyed it with my mom It is interasting and controdersial.

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Summary: A touching book for young to middle readers
Review: This was a very moving book about a young girl who is growing up in a time when African Americans were first starting to go to the school that the white children go to in America. The plot tells about Belle Teal who starts school in the Fall and expects everything to be the same as the years before she had attended Cocker Elementry School. When saying this, I mean having the same best friend, taking the same bus everyday, having the same life at home. However, this all changes when she steps onto the school bus and finds Vanessa, a girl who thinks she's better than everyone else, and later when she goes into school and finds a colored boy in her classroom. Also, her grandmother is getting older and is slowly losing her memory. All of these events show Belle Teal about growing up and dealing with conflicts along the way. Belle starts out as a child and finishes as a young adult. This was an excellant and touching read to young to middle readers.