Recently, my friend Anne Bustard recommended this book, not only because it’s well-written and an excellent story, but because she recently had lunch with the author, Shana Burg, a fellow Austinite, and they had a swell time.As the story is set in Mississippi, I figured it would be in our library system. Wrong. When the Caledonia librarian ordered a copy through interlibrary loan, the book came from the Virginia Beach Public Library. Unbelievable. After reading Addie Ann’s emotional journey as a twelve-year-old witness to the horrors of discrimination, I feel like writing to every MS congressperson …

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