![\"book](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-Gk9qWNAapPE\/TuIwhPWCp_I\/AAAAAAAAHRw\/Rrl4cFKik5A\/s200\/Ten%2Bmiles%2Bpast%2Bnormal.jpg?resize=132%2C200\")
\nYou’ve gotta feel for Janie – her first year at a small town high school and already labeled as ignorable. And since her mom sometimes blogs about Janie’s personal life, she’s doubly doomed…<\/p>\n
\nYou’ve gotta feel for Janie – her first year at a small town high school and already labeled as ignorable. And since her mom sometimes blogs about Janie’s personal life, she’s doubly doomed…<\/p>\n
But learning about the “citizenship school<\/a>” that existed near her North Carolina town in the 1950s during the Civil Rights movement and the brave people<\/a> who taught African-Americans to read and write so they could register to vote<\/a> helps Janie find her voice in the here and now. Book info<\/b>: Ten Miles Past Normal \/ by Frances O’Roark Dowell. Atheneum Books for Young Readers (Simon & Schuster), 2011. [author’s website<\/a>] [author interview<\/a>] [publisher website<\/a>]<\/p>\n My Book Talk<\/b>: Janie loved the idea of moving to a farm when she was 10, but in high school it\u2019s not so cool. Goat manure on her shoe, hay stuck in her hair that awful first week of school \u2013 now the kids call her \u201cFarm Girl\u201d and treat her like she\u2019s invisible. Except Sarah, the only friend from their junior high who came to this high school; they only have one class together\u2026 so it\u2019s lunchtime in the library, every day, alone.<\/p>\n When a cute guy invites them to play and sing with Jam Band, Janie is amazed to find that she\u2019s a natural on bass guitar. Monster (that\u2019s really his name on his birth certificate \u2013 crazy parents) teaches her to play, and she just feels the energy grow.<\/p>\n Researching their women\u2019s studies project introduces them to real heroines in their North Carolina town, women who taught black adults to read and write so they could register to vote in the 1950s, despite threats from the KKK. As Janie and Sarah interview Mrs. Brown and the late Mrs. Pritchard\u2019s husband, they decide that the old farmhouse site of the \u201cCitizenship School\u201d should be preserved as a museum.<\/p>\n Will Jam Band ever make real music? Does Monster like Janie (you know, \u201clike\u201d like)? Can she survive her craft-clueless mom\u2019s blog about farm life that veers a little too often into Janie\u2019s personal life? And Mom\u2019s plan for a hootenanny at the farm for her 15th birthday? Yikes! (One of 5,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>) Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher through NetGalley.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You’ve gotta feel for Janie – her first year at a small town high school and already labeled as ignorable. And since her mom sometimes blogs about Janie’s personal life, she’s doubly doomed… But learning about the “citizenship school” that existed near her North Carolina town in the 1950s during the Civil Rights movement and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,50],"tags":[163,22,4,82,94,16,18,44,46,43,86,15,9,21,35,3,8],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-historical","tag-african-american","tag-behavior","tag-belonging","tag-blogging","tag-civil-rights","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-funny","tag-growing-up","tag-music","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-teens","tag-us-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1852,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/1852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n**kmm<\/p>\n