The Laura Line

By Crystal Allen

Subjects: Overweight persons, Grandmothers, African Americans, African americans, fiction, Slavery, fiction, Self-perception, fiction, Popularity, fiction, Slavery, Self-perception, Schools, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Grandparents, fiction, Popularity, Schools

Description: When Laura Dyson's seventh grade history teacher schedules a class trip to the slave shack on her grandmother's farm, Laura is forced to come to terms with her family's past and what it means for her future.