FRIENDSHIP FOR TODAY
By Patricia C. Mckissack

The year is 1954, the place is Missouri, and twelve-year-old Rosemary Patterson is about to make history. She is one of the first African American students to enter the white school in her town. Headstrong, smart Rosemary welcomes the challenge, but starting this new school gets more daunting when her best friend is hospitalized for polio. Suddenly, Rosemary must face all the stares and whispers alone. But when the girl who has shown her the most cruelty becomes an unlikely confidante, Rosemary learns important truths about the power of friendship to overcome prejudice.

Excerpt:
This summer has been a Superman Summer – faster than a speeding bullet.  Seems no sooner than J.J. said we had the whole summer ahead of us, it’s over.
            J.J. left right after school for Nashville, Tennessee.  Every year he goes to visit his grandparents for the summer.  I miss him something awful.  But the last week in June, Estelean and I went to the church camp down in the Ozark Mountains.  We both came home sun-baked and covered with mosquito bites.  We spent the 4th of July at a picnic in Forest Park.  Then she went to Mississippi to visit her aunt and cousins.

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