Praise for Jesse
“Jesse is a touching and beautifully rendered evocation of an ugly time and place in America and of the enduring power of race and racism to shape lives and destinies in a country still divided along the color line.”
—Charles F. Whitaker, journalism professor, Northwestern University; former senior editor, Ebony magazine, and former director of Ebony’s Gertrude Johnson Williams Literary Award
“This novel takes me back to my teaching days. It captures the emotional culture of the times. It’s fantastic.”
—Jerry Harris, retired Alabama public school teacher
“Jesse is an inspiration for me to treat others fairly and to not be judgmental, but it also gives me a very detailed perspective of what life was like for African Americans during the beginning of integration.”
—Taylor Rogers, Sand Rock High School Class of 2013
“Not To Kill a Mockingbird, The Hunger Games, the Twilight series—no book I have come across has made reluctant student readers this excited. This suspenseful, gut-wrenching novel will take you on twists and turns that no book has ever taken you on before. This will be a new sensation for students and teachers, with its deeply engrossing—and, because of its historical fiction nature—disturbing content that needs to be discussed.”
—Shannon Hood, English teacher, Sand Rock High School, Alabama
“I would encourage anyone I come in contact with to read this jaw-dropping, action-packed novel of a mixed-race child going to an all-white school at a dangerous time in our history. Many of my classmates, me included, found ourselves straying from our teacher’s agenda of reading one chapter per day simply because it is impossible to limit yourself to only reading one chapter a day of Jesse.”
—Meghan Parker, Sand Rock High School Class of 2013
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