When nothing was revealed she resigned and helped raise her granddaughter elsewhere. About ten years ago her grandma used her position in the city to dig up some tennis courts on some kind of a treasure hunt. Stay for the biting glimpse of America’s intolerant past.Ĭandice’s grandmother wasn’t crazy or corrupt or anything like that but try telling that to the residents of Lambert, South Carolina. Until I read that book I’d never encountered a fun, casual middle grade puzzler that was, at the same time, socially conscious regarding the topic of race in America, with a clear, keen sense of how the past affects the present in every way. You can see where I’m going with this, and it shouldn’t surprise you that that middle grade novel I selected in the end was, The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson. Something that’s interesting and fun, but also manages to bring up some pretty serious issues at the same time. Still, I wanted to include something on the younger end of the scale. Parsing the complexity of racist systems requires brains. But as it turns out, books for young people that take a long hard look at systematic oppression in America in the 21st century are nine times out of ten written for young adults. And, of course, socially conscious middle grade novels (books for kids between the ages of 9-12). To do this, I wanted to include a range of different kinds of books at different ages. The other day I was asked to come up with ten children’s book equivalents to Claudia Rankine’s book Citizen (which, should anybody ask you, is not for kids).
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