Middle Grade Monday: The Lucky Ones, by Linda Williams Jackson
It's been a long time since I had a middle-grade review, but I finally picked up a couple of audio books at the library and jumped back in. Title: Author: Linda Williams Jackson, narrated by Reginald James Publication Info: Source: Publisher's Blurb: Award-winning author Linda Williams Jackson pulls from her own childhood in the Mississippi Delta to tell the story of Ellis Earl, who dreams of a real house, food enough for the whole familyāand to be someone. Itās 1967, and eleven-year-old Ellis Earl Brown has big dreams. Heās going to grow up to be a teacher or a lawyerāor maybe bothāand live in a big brick house in town. Thereāll always be enough food in the icebox, and his mama wonāt have to run herself ragged looking for work as a maid in order to support Ellis Earl and his eight siblings and niece, Vera. So Ellis Earl applies himself at school, soaking up the lessons that Mr. Foster teaches his classāparticularly those about famous colored people like Mr. Thur...