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...
Audience
840L Lexile
Study Program
Accelerated Reader MG+ 5.2 16 166809
Note
Downloadable audio file.
Performer
Read by Stacey Aswad and Francois Battiste with J.D. Jackson and Robin Miles.
Note
"Books on Tape"--Container.
Summary
Struggling to adapt within her newly blended family in 1964 Mississippi, young Sunny witnesses increasingly scary community agitation when activists from the North arrive in town to help register African Americans to vote.