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The girl in a box... I still can't remember why I picked it up at a school book fair, but I can remember the emotions that flowed off the page. This book does leave you in an emotional wreck at the fate of the girl. Does she die? did she live? It's a question that's never answered, but reading this girl's story gripped me from the very first line.

A brilliant read and a book that stays with you long after you've finished.

The girl in a box... I still can't remember why I picked it up at a school book fair, but I can remember the emotions that flowed off the page. This book does leave you in an emotional wreck at the fate of the girl. Does she die? did she live? It's a question that's never answered, but reading this girl's story gripped me from the very first line.

A brilliant read and a book that stays with you long after you've finished.

Though it is 1912, Lena has been raised in a sheltered environment without knowledge of racial hatred. Now Lena's family has moved to Texas where slavery was never an issue and Lena goes to school with the local children, but when she wins a contest quoting the most Bible verses she realizes the jealousies that begin to show in the community can be tinged with real fear. Her father's work ethic shows up a local white share cropper and Lena's innocence is destroyed, but her father's ability to forgive and see the good in people even as they do harm is her biggest life lesson.

Words by Heart is about a girl named Lena. She still lives in the time were there is racism. Lena is trying to win a bible quoting contest to make her papa proud of her. After she wins no one really likes he because of the color of her skin. She moves into a neighborhood and her family is the only african american there. Now she needs to forgive the people that hurt her.

A girl types in the dark of a cement prison, where she’s been left with food & water, her typewriter & paper. I’ve been curious about this one because I lived in Memphis when a girl there was kidnapped & later rescued from the ceiling space of a church. This story is an examination of a mind, rather than mystery or adventure. Some typos would have made it more realistic.

Annotation: Lena tries to excel by memorizing all of the Scriptures for a contest but after she wins she learns about racism in the new town they live in where they are the only black family.

Kidnapped and left in an underground room, Jackie explores her psychological strengths and limitations as she tries to make contact with the outside world by writing messages and sending them through a slit in the door.