![]() ![]() ![]() Baseball-loving Laura is deeply ashamed of the shack, which she calls “yesterday’s history,” and she thinks her classmates will scorn her for hanging onto that history. Anderson's property, Laura is determined to derail the class trip. Anderson, to allow her class to visit the crumbling slave shack at the rear of Mrs. When her seventh-grade history teacher convinces Laura's grandmother, Mrs. Overweight and popularity-challenged, the last thing Laura wants is to draw negative attention to herself. In her new novel, she introduces readers to Laura Eboni Dyson, the latest in a long line of Lauras dating back to the Amistad. Modern sass combines with a historical twist, making an uneven blend of middle school melodrama and the bitter realities of slavery.Īs she showed in How Lamar's Bad Prank Won a Bubba-Sized Trophy (2011), Allen has a flare for blending the austere with the audacious. ![]()
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