Showing posts with label Segregation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Segregation. Show all posts

Thursday, December 20, 2007

"New Boy" by Julian Houston


"New Boy" is about a colored boy named Rob in the 1950's. He goes to Draper, a high School in Conneticuit. There has never been any colored students in the history of the school. He makes high honor role and is doing good at Draper. He makes two new friends, one with terrible acne, and another a grade higher then him. But his friends back in his hometown, Virginia, are planing an act against the whites, a sit-in, that could get them injured, or worse, killed. After meeting the girl of his dreams, and seeing his best friends again, will it all end over a sit-in? Read this MUST READ fiction adventure, "New Boy' and find out.
This booked affected me by explaining the way of life for a teenager back in the late 1950's. It got me really intristed in segregation and civil rights. Also there is some language in about every chapter so only mature young adults should read this book.
I would give this book a 4.5 out of a 5 rating.