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I started to read this book and it didn't grab me right away so I put it down. I then picked it up again and got half way through and it still didn't grab me. The subject matter has been told in other stories that I feel were better written. This one I was able to put down and not worry about the ending.

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Rated 3.5 stars
This is a coming-of-age story set in the early sixties in the segregated town of, High Cotton, Texas. Main characters are 13 year old, Corky, her older brother, Mack and America, a black girl that just moved to High Cotton.

Historical fiction, touching on civil rights, segregation and racism. It references, To Kill a Mockingbird, which is one of my all time favorites. It doesn’t say it is a YA novel, but I felt it was geared more towards YA. Even though it touches on all of the above, it’s done very simplistically. I’m fond of coming-of-age books but this one just wasn’t a good fit for me.