Feb 4, 2019
Black History Month| Day 4| Freedom Songs by Yvette Moore
This young adult novel does an amazing job of showing a black girl coming of age in the 1960s. While Freedom Songs was meant for 6th to 8th graders, as an adult I can say that this book was an enjoyable read. This is because the book covered the full scope of what life in the 1960's would have been like for a teenager living in the north while having family in the south.
I appreciate how Yvette Moore did not shy away from including heavy topics. I especially enjoyed the inclusion of the diversity within the black American experience and know Freedom Songs would make for a great film adaption.
