Publisher synopsis: It's 1964, and Sunny's town is being invaded. Or at least that's what the adults of Greenwood, Mississippi are saying. All Sunny knows is that people from up north are coming to help people register to vote. They're calling it Freedom Summer.
Meanwhile, Sunny can't help but feel like her house is being invaded, too. She has a new stepmother, a new brother, and a new sister crowding her life, giving her little room to breathe. And things get even trickier when Sunny and her brother are caught sneaking into the local swimming pool -- where they bump into a mystery boy whose life is going to become tangled up in theirs.
As she did in her groundbreaking documentary novel COUNTDOWN award-winning author Deborah Wiles uses stories and images to tell the riveting story of a certain time and place -- and of kids who, in a world where everyone is choosing sides, must figure out how to stand up for themselves and fight for what's right.
First line: Well, this is a documentary novel so, the first 40 pages are "documents," such as photos and poems and quotes and news bits. The book opens with Langston Hughes' poem, I, Too Sing America. The first line of text, on page 41 is, "The first thing we do, me and Gillette, is make sure everybody is asleep."
Page 56: "Deputy Davis twitches his mouth into that tsk sound he always makes before he converses. "What are you two doing out here in the middle of the night?""
I really enjoyed, Countdown, book 1 of the trilogy. The unique structure adds to the enjoyment.
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