The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had: Summary and book reviews of The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had by Kristin Levine, plus links to an excerpt from The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had and a biography of Kristin Levine.
The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had
by
Kristin Levine
Hardcover: Jan 2009,
272 pages.
The last thing Harry “Dit” Sims expects when Emma Walker comes to town is to become friends. Proper-talking, brainy Emma doesn’t play baseball or fish too well, but she sure makes Dit think, especially about the differences between black and white. But soon Dit is thinking about a whole lot more when the town barber, who is black, is put on trial for a terrible crime. Together Dit and Emma come up with a daring plan to save him from the unthinkable.
Set in 1917 and inspired by the author’s true family history, this is the poignant story of a remarkable friendship and the perils of small-town justice
Book Reviews
BookBrowse - Jo Perry
Middle-grade readers are in luck. Levine has written a richly-realized tale of a powerful best-friendship and a boy's passage into manhood during a shameful and violent period in America's past. Full Review (members only, 835 words).
School Library Journal
This spirited, early-20th-century coming-of-age story presents a small-town cast of well-drawn characters, an unlikely friendship, engaging adventures, and poignant realizations.
Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Tension builds just below the surface of this energetic, seamlessly narrated first novel set in small-town Alabama in 1917. Ages 10+
Kirkus Reviews
[T]he growth of their friendship, along with Dit's emerging moral conscience, make this a fine debut novel by an author to watch. Ages 10-14.
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