Lunch-Box Dream

I don't know what this book is supposed to be, or when I've read a children's book that seems so wildly unappealing to children. Almost all the characters are thoroughly unpleasant, the protagonist is weirdly obsessed with black people in a way that seems unrealistic (his very first reaction to the......more

I'm trying to figure out why this book gets such bad reviews. I actually really enjoyed it. I liked the dichotomy of the families. White, middle-class, miserable, and unloving, vs. black, poor, and close knit family. To see the Jim Crow laws of the 1950's through the eyes of a child is rather unlike a......more

This book is a good choice for people who like history and realism, as it treats the racism of the 50’s in a real way, giving those who like history a great option to read. Bobby and his family are heading for a family trip in which the arrival does not matter much since Bobby only wants to go to th......more

Bobby and his family take a trip south to see the Civil War battlefields. Jacob is spending the summer with his aunt and uncle. This book is told from various narrators perspectives and it makes for a very disjointed telling. It is supposed to highlight Jim Crow laws in the South during the 1950s an......more