Lies We Tell Ourselves: A New York Times Bestseller Paperback Edition - Original

from BelleBooks117

originally posted on bellesbeautifulbooks.blogspot.com The Short: This was a very well done book. I don't think I have every read a book from the Civil Rights era, and I am glad that I did. After reading Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee, which is about the times of slavery, I was very interested...

from JanesList

I have to say I was worried when I realized this book was done by Harlequin Teen, but it turned out to be interesting and not cheesy or overdone. The author did do her homework about what the integration of schools was like from the students' perspective, and I don't think she candy-coated it. I ...

from literaryperuser

A fictionalized account of the integration of Virginia school during the 1950s, this book feels authentic and makes on realize the importance and the sacrifice made by the African-Americans who first integrated into Caucasian schools after the Supreme Court ruling. What these students were forced...

from howifeelaboutbooks

Historical fiction with a LGBTQ twist. It's 1959 in Virginia, and Jefferson High School is finally becoming integrated. Sarah is one of ten black students to take the historic first steps into the school, and Linda is one of the most vocal of the white students against integration. Amid abuse and...

from SamMusher

The fourth star is because this book has done something unique: melding a fairly standard school integration memoir with a fairly standard first-LGB-stirrings love story. The prose is nothing special, but it gets the job done, and the job is important. I finished this book right as the Supreme Co...