The Library in the Woods

The Library in the WoodsAfter a storm devastates the farm his parents have been renting, Junior moves with his family to Roxboro, North Carolina. The year is 1959, and the nine year old boy has to navigate the realities of the segregated South while adjusting to life in town. Instead of farming, his father works at the lumberyard, and his mother takes in laundry from the white people in town. Junior meets new friends who have a TVand their own books! These new friends offer

James realizes that he’s put Isaac in danger

fluid prose that bears no trace of sentimentality

she is forced to face the hard truth that she just might not be good enough to attend a conservatory after high school

and how was it tracked

and three impossible tests

when Miss Lafleur comes to visit to help deal with the termites and investigate the magic

one boy catches glimpses of the lives around him in this lovely ode to autumn evenings

but Jamaica is changing

At Play Academy

Leena isn’t sure who to trust

Now we rise

• 2006 CCBC Choices winner