The next day, December 26th something peculiar happened. Lucy Gray was only 10 years old at the time. She was going ice skating with her sister, Rivoli Holland when she noticed that her snow globe was no where to be found. It wasn't where she left it, by her bed. It wasn't in her room, Rivie's room, or any room in the house. Rivie was 14 then and had just read the Nancy Drew books. She decided it might be fun to tell her little sister it was a big mystery and they just had to solve it. They decided to go to the gift shop by their house since they sold snow globes there. When they entered the big, wooden door and walked in a breeze of snowflakes circled around them....
The Help by Kathryn Stockett The Help is a great book for young adults and mature teenagers. It is education, funny and insightful. It is 444 pages, but a definite page turner. I rated it 5-stars because it is such a great book. It is basically about how unfairly African-Americans were treated in the 1950s and 60s. It changes perspective about every chapter, but it's fairly easy to follow along. It is from the point of view of 3 women from Jackson, Mississippi in the 1960's. Aibileen, Minny and Miss Skeeter are the narrators. I thought it was unique that it had more than one narrator and it allowed you to understand the story much better. Aibileen (my favorite character) is a black women who is "the Help" to Miss Leefolt. She is kind, wise and smart. Throughout the story she develops a strong bond between Miss Leefolt's little girl, Mae Mobley. Miss Leefolt is very strict and rather oblivious to Mae Mobley. She doesn't really know how to raise her, so Aibil...
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