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Gr 4–8—This evocatively told, carefully researched memoir-in-verse is the story of a group of 12 teenagers from Clinton, TN, who, in 1956, were among the first black students to pave the way for school integration. Free verse and formal poetry, along with newspaper headlines, snippets of legislation, and other primary sources about national and local history are mixed with Boyce's first-person narrative. The book opens with an overview of life in segregated Clinton and the national events leading up to the desegregation of Clinton High. The rest of the work follows the four months in the fall of 1956 when Boyce and the other 11 teens attended Clinton High. They faced angry white mobs outside the school, constant harassment from white classmates, and a hostile principal who viewed integration as a legal choice rather than a moral one. The book includes an introduction and epilogue, authors' notes, brief biographies of the involved students, photographs, a time line, and a bibliography. The writing invites readers to cheer on Boyce for her optimism and her stubbornness in the face of racism, without singling her out as a solitary hero. This story adeptly shows readers that, like the Clinton Twelve, they too can be part of something greater than themselves. VERDICT A must-buy for tweens and teens, especially where novels-in-verse are popular.—Erica Ruscio, formerly at Rockport Public Library, MA
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“Readers will empathize with Jo Ann's honest incredulity . . . Such gems relevant to today's politics, along with the narrator's strong inner voice, make this offering stand out. Powerful storytelling of a not-so-distant past.†―Kirkus Reviews, starred review"Insightful, immediate, and passionate . . . Lyrical yet hard-hitting account of a pivotal chapter in the history of desegregation." - Publishers Weekly, starred review"This evocatively told, carefully researched memoir-in-verse . . . adeptly shows readers that, like the Clinton Twelve, they too can be part of something greater than themselves." - School Library Journal, starred review"This moving and timely memoir should have a place in all libraries that serve young adults." - School Library Connection, starred review"Sure to mobilize youth to action and change, this book is necessary for all library collections that serve youth." - VOYA, starred review“Engrossing, informative, and important for middle-grade collections.†―Booklist“Accessible text and fast-paced narration make this a strong recommendation for 'One School, One Book' middle-school reading.†―BCCB“[A] fine addition to texts about the integration of public schools during the civil rights era in the United States. . .†―The Horn Book Magazine
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Product details
Age Range: 10 - 12 years
Grade Level: 4 - 6
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's Books (January 8, 2019)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1681198525
ISBN-13: 978-1681198521
Product Dimensions:
5.9 x 1.1 x 8.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
5.0 out of 5 stars
15 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#250,297 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Only five stars? Nope. Infinite stars for this compelling, beautifully-composed masterpiece, co-written by one of the original Clinton 12, Jo Ann Allen Boyce, and author Debbie Levy.I read this book cover-to-cover in one sitting, from the dedication and the introduction through the authors’ notes, scrapbook and further reading. I wanted to know every scrap of information about this group of courageous young people who came before the Little Rock 9 (this would be so incredible to pair with The Lions of Little Rock) and Ruby Bridges, yet few people know their story.It is indeed Jo Ann’s story that amazed, gripped, and haunted me. Her first-person perspective was powerful enough, but then for Allen Boyce - with Levy - to choose so many different poetic forms in which to tell only made her story more fascinating. Switching from lyrical free-verse to pounding rhythmic and rhyming quartets when true events were at their most highly-charged? I’ve never seen this before in a narrative nonfiction and I was unequivocally blown away.This is by far one of the best books I’ve ever read and definitely one of 2019’s best. I will proudly carry This Promise of Change: One Girl’s Story in the Fight for School Equality on the shelves of my classroom library. It is an imperative read.
Incredible story that was somehow burried in our American history! This is not just a young adults book, this is an ADULT book. It is an easy and enjoyable read, but yet it contains so much information about this brave group of young people who paved their way, under very tense circumstances, into the civil rights movement. The book is done in prose, which really works to keep it light hearted but also very real and touching. It also maintains a positive perspective, which is refreshing. I loved every second of reading this book and could not put it down!
This book is about my hometown. It's well written, easy to read and written from the personal perspective of one who experienced the desegregation of the first public school in Tennessee. I know and have much admiration for the author.
I could not put this book down. My family is from Clinton, TN and I’ve always heard about the brave “Clinton 12â€. Thank you, Jo Ann Allen Boyce, for sharing your journey with us.
Eye opening for someone who grew up in this area.
What a beautifully written, powerful story! A must-read! Loved it!
This book is beautifully written about an ugly time in my hometown. What an inspirational book. Racism is contagious ...but so is kindness and love.
School integration and the Deep South have quite the history that’s far too recent for my tastes. When Georgia’s resistance to integration dragged on into the 1970s and forced the federal government to get involved, my own mother had to fight to stay in public school with her friends; my great-grandparents tried to put her in a private school that had been set up solely so the most racist of white parents wouldn’t have to let their children be taught alongside black kids.But we ain’t here to talk about my mom’s experience. We’re here for brave, brilliant people like Jo Ann Allen Boyce and her perspective on a problem that’s never really gone away. It’s equal parts historical memoir and an incitement to work hard right now for change.Teenage Jo Ann Allen wasn’t that happy about segregation, as you might gather from just the first few pages. But she tried to look on the bright side of things like her dad and found peace with the way things were in Clinton, Tennessee. Not satisfaction, merely peace. Then Brown v. Board‘s ruling comes down and a local judge reversing his ruling on a previous case means Jo Ann and eleven other teens will be integrating Clinton High School. If you know your history, you know what follows: riots over Labor Day, a bombing in 1958, and just two of the Clinton Twelve staying at the school until graduation.What you don’t know until you read This Promise of Change was how it firsthand felt to be a black girl charged to be one of twelve integrating a public high school in the Deep South–making Allen and her peers the second group to do so after the tiny town of Charleston, Arkansas did the same in 1954. This was before Little Rock and Ruby Bridges as well as at the tail end of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. And here we have Jo Ann, a teenage girl who wants to become a nurse and loves to sing.Exquisitely detailed notes and appendices at the end of the book both highlight the musical nature of the book’s free verse and outline those choices. Some chapters are traditional poetry with rhyme schemes you’ll remember from English class and others are closer to freeform verse. Both ways, readers will get wrapped up in the notes. There will be some serious temptation to read some of the chapters out loud to fully enjoy the rhythm and rhyme!If you’re white like me, you might be in danger of looking at the white people in Jo Ann’s life and thinking “oh yay, there’s a decent human being!†DON’T FALL FOR IT. Most of those same white people, like Clinton High’s principal and one of the teachers, don’t want black children in their school at all but are going with it because that’s the new law of the land. They want to be law-abiding citizens, but they’d prefer to stay segregated. Their part in enrolling and keeping the kids in Clinton High School deserves no praise whatsoever. Heck, it makes me furious on the students’ behalf!Look. If someone is only advocating for a human being’s rights because the law says they should, that person is not an ally. For instance, someone who’s pro-gay rights because it’s the law but privately thinks gay people shouldn’t be allowed to get married or have job security nationwide? That’s not a good citizen, that’s a phony.The integration of Clinton High School was a moment in a movement that’s still not over. Thanks to redlining and gentrification, plenty of public schools are still segregated in addition to entire towns! Mom’s hometown is still so segregated by so-called “tradition†that there are two different funeral homes and which one you end up in when you die depends on what color your skin is.This Promise of Change hosts decades of experience and centuries of pain in the four-month period Jo Ann spent as a Clinton High School student. It’s both a reflection and a call to action beautifully composed in verse and it’s the kind of book that deserves pairing with any history of the civil rights movement. (That also requires teachers who actually teach about the civil rights movement, which most of mine did not because they were too busy whitewashing things and only giving us secondhand/thirdhand sources about the experiences of POC in the US. Schools: still racist!)
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