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BOOK REVIEW: Leigh
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by: Laura V. Hilton Dancing Word Reviewer
Title: Leigh Author: Lyn Cote Publisher: Faithwords ISBN: 0-446-69437-1 Genre: Inspirational/Historical/Fiction
Linda Leigh Sinclair is growing up in the aftermath of World War II. Leigh is dissatisfied with her life, and tired of coming of age at Ivy Manor. She wants to spread her wings and fly—and what gives her the most pleasure is hanging out with the fringe elements of society.
Leigh is seventeen years old in August 1963 when Martin Luther King makes his famous speech in Washington DC. Leigh wants—no, needs—to go, because her high school journalist teacher has said that whoever writes the best report on the Civil Rights march will become editor of the school paper that next year. But Leigh’s mother, Bette, refuses to let her go and sends Leigh to visit her grandmother, Claire.
When a black college student, Tucker, helps Leigh escape her grandmother’s house to attend the march, Leigh’s life changes completely. How can she go back to her old life after the experience in Washington DC? Leigh finds herself caught up in a world of change.
Leigh is the third book in The Women of Ivy Manor series, but it easily stands alone. Readers will want to read the first two books in the series though, to learn what happened in Leigh’s mother’s and grandmother’s lives to make them the way they are. I found Leigh a bit self-centered, but that is not unusual among teenagers, or among those who were young adults during the “free sixties.”
Fans of this series will not want to miss Leigh. A faith message is woven in, teaching Leigh that she can grow into a strong, mature woman with God’s help. Reader’s will want to go along on this journey. A reading book guide is included at the end of the book. $10.99. 288 pages. |
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