Rating: 4/5
**CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS**
It’s 1933 in rural Mississippi and a black family are battling against racial prejudice. Cassie Logan, at nine years old, can’t understand why Mr Simms gets to beat her off the pavement into the gutter when he cares to, or why the Jefferson Davis school bus nearly runs over her and her brothers every morning as they walk to their school, or why so many men are literally getting away with murder simply because they are white.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It was extremely well-written and very sad. I thought the last two sentences were very touching: “I cried for T.J. For T.J. and the land.”