The Girl From the Tar Paper School by Teri Kanefield

This is a very fascinating book. It is not an average picture book, and it has a lot of words. I had never heard this story before, and I enjoyed it a lot. It surprised me that a high school student could plan and go through with a strike to get a new school building. It is very unfair to require students to go to school in a building that has bad conditions simply because they are black. I was very impressed that the young girl of this story, Barbara, had the courage to fight against the injustice. I was also very impressed by the planning that she did. It was a very well thought out and cleverly organized strike. This book emphasized that it only takes one person with the strength to stand up and say something to start change. I really liked that because people think, I'm one person, what can I do to help? In this situation all it took was one person to begin the process.