Darby
by: Jonathon Scott Fuqua
This book is about a 9 year old little girl named Darby growing up in South Carolina in the 1920's. Darby is white and her best friend is black. This is something that just doesn't happen during this time period. Darby looks forward to coming home from school each day and meeting Evette in the woods to play. Darby's dream is to become a journalist. She writes for the local daily newspaper and her fathers friend is the editor. With Evettes help, Darby gets better and better at her writing and starts getting an article published every week. When she sees her friends brother getting beat up by a member of the Ku Klux Klan she writes about it. Her father is against the Klan and doesn't like the acts of the man who beat up Evettes brother and allows her to write the article. Her family faces hard times after the article is published. The KKK even burn a cross in their yard. I think this book is a great book to use in a high 5th or 6th grade reading class. This books catches the readers attention because it is written in first person through the eyes of a 9 year old. There is also a lot of history in this story. It is a good book to bring up some class discussion and inferences about how people felt during the 1920's, when the story took place. I recommend this book to anyone who likes historical fiction and wants to read about what life might have been like for a nine year old little girl growing up with a friend no one thought she should have.
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