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"Fourteen-year-old Ike Stone and his pals are thrilled to be a part of the Civil Rights movement sweeping the Deep South in the 1960s, but the depth of racial hatred is brought painfully home when two of their friends are killed in a bombing. . . . Noted theater figure Davis has loaded enough action and emotional energy for two novels into his tale".--Publishers Weekly.
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《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
Gr 7-9-- The year is 1963, and 14-year-old Isaac ``Stone'' Stone's father, Ike, won't let him travel with the rest of his church youth group from Alabama to the civil rights march in Washington. His mother has just died, and his father worries that something will happen to the boy. Besides, ever since Ike came back from the Korean War filled with bitterness, he has kept a gun in the garage. He opposes his son's devotion to nonviolence and belittles his admiration of Martin Luther King. When the church youth meeting room is bombed, killing two friends and maiming a third, Stone organizes a children's march. Ultimately, these efforts and the assassination of President Kennedy force Ike to confront his feelings and support his son. Both Stone and Ike are well-drawn characters, and their relationship is developed convincingly. Stone's devotion to his cause will inspire readers from all backgrounds. Davis realistically portrays the boy's struggle to apply King's values in his personal life, and the ending is hopeful but not happy. Unfortunately, inconsistencies in language and dialogue interrupt the flow of the story, as do the characters' tendencies to make speeches. Historical information is not always integrated smoothly. This is a moving story, but one that does not quite come together as a novel. --Lyn Miller-Lachmann, Siena College Library, Loudonville, NY (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
出版社周刊评论
Isaac Stone, coming of age in the South amid the tumultuous civil rights movement, embraces the teachings of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from his Korean War veteran father. PW's starred review heralded this as a ``passionate first novel.'' Ages 12-up. (Jan.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
《儿童读物杂志》(Horn Book)书评
Fourteen-year-old Isaac Stone greatly admires Martin Luther King, Jr., and is anxious to participate in the 1963 march on Washington with a group from his church, but his father feels differently and will not permit the boy to go. The novel, which delineates the difficulty of maintaining a nonviolent stance in the midst of violence, is an authentic voice of a troubled time in the history of America. From HORN BOOK 1992, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus评论
In his first novel, the actor and playwright plunges readers into the headiest days of the Civil Rights movement. Isaac, almost 14, is dismayed when his protective father refuses to let him join the great March on Washington; later, after the Young People's Bible Class at his church is bombed, he helps organize a children's march and sees his father beaten by police when the march is broken up. Davis shows how a local church could expand its role as community center to play a part in inspiring and guiding a national movement, inviting readers to consider the conflict between Isaac, who has embraced Martin Luther King's philosophy of nonviolence, and his father, who carries a pistol and promises to give as he receives. Despite witnessing racial violence and experiencing steady harassment from his peers, Isaac's convictions endure. He gets to meet his hero, Dr. King; in the end, his father, after Kennedy's assassination and some soul-searching, has a change of heart. Dramatic and simply told, with a cast of strong personalities. (Fiction. 11-13)
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Gr. 5-8. Davis sets his docunovel about the civil rights movement in the crucial time of the march on Washington and the assassination of the president, when children died in the bombing of a church and their classmates studied nonviolence and overcame police dogs and clubs. The story is told in the voice of 13-year-old Isaac Stone, dutiful son, straight-A student in his Alabama school, and junior assistant pastor of Holy Oak Baptist. He struggles to keep his personal vow of nonviolence and dreams of becoming a preacher "just like Martin." Though several minor characters are vividly drawn, Isaac is more role model than person. Some of the dialogue is stiff, and there are loose ends in the story, especially in Isaac's relationship with his troubled Korean veteran father, who nurses a pistol, refuses to espouse nonviolence, and then suddenly does. This story doesn't have the lyrical power of Moore's Freedom Songs [BKL Ap 15 91] in showing what it was like to be young at that time. What is riveting here is the sense of history being made--of struggle and commitment in one community. Readers will go from this book to the great documentaries in book and video and to the stirring essays and speeches of the time. ~--Hazel Rochman