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Susan Marcus Bends the Rules
Susan Marcus Bends the Rules
Reviewed by: Phyllis Fuchs - Curtis Mmorial Library, Brunswick, Southern Maine Library District
Review Date: February 11, 2015
Review
The colorful Jacket illustration suggests a story about racial prejudice. Its narrator, ten year old Susan, recently transplanted from New York City to a small town in Missouri in 1943, makes the book also one of historical fiction. In just over one hundred pages divided into seventeen brief chapters, readers can learn a bit about FDR, the country's President in World War 11, that mailing a letter within the country cost a three cent stamp, what a Victory Garden was and a disease called polio. Adding to her surprise and then immediate opposition to Jim Crow laws, Susan personally encounters dislike of Jews, of the Japanese, of her beloved baseball team, the New York Yankees. The story offers young girls of about nine through eleven or twelve years a thoughtful account of a once feisty new resident who is learning much about the nature of friendships, her success in achieving, through small, realistic steps, with help from new friends, a move towards acceptance of all people. Recommended.
Overall Book Score: good
About the Book
Author:
Cutler, Jane
Illustrator: ,
Publisher: Holiday House
Book Type: chapter book fiction
Genre: realistic fiction,historical fiction
Audience: grades 4-6
Binding Type: trade edition
Binding Quality: very good
ISBN: 9780823430475
Price: 16.95