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Summary: Modern Day Racism
Review: This tale of conflict lying between blacks and whites is told form the point of view from two girls: Shawna and Kari. Shawna, editor of the newspaper, moves to this small Georgian town after her parents divorced shortly before. Shawna comes from a wealthy African-American family and becomes the envy of Kari, a small town girl with little knowledge of the outside world. The beginning chapter of the book starts with a rock flying through a window, thus setting Shawna and Kari on a collision course with one another. While these two teenage girls might think they have nothing in common, they soon learn differently. Once arriving at her new school, Shawna realizes that this town that her father grew up in is not like her hometown in Colorado. Here blacks and whites still do not see each other as equal. While there are no set rules dividing them, they still do not socialize or concern themselves with each other's business. When Shawna's friend wants his relationship with a white girl recognized, a whole new set of obstacles arises. At the same time, Kari's world becomes so intertwined with Shawna's after a recent discovery that she finds it hard to choose between the life she knew and the new life that Shawna shows her. This story is well written and keeps the reader in suspense. Even though the general public believes that racism died in the 1960s, this book suggest otherwise. What happens when two girls are thrown at each other with all their differences exposed on the surface, while, much to their dismay, underneath they learn they hold strikingly similar pasts.
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