The Invincible Summer of Junniper Jones by Daven McQueen: review.

What a wonderful book! Memorable, heart-breaking and enlightening. I think it's one of the best books I have ever read. A novel that should be mandatory in every school all over the world because racism, unfortunately, is universal. Although it is set almost seventy years ago, some of the situations depicted in the book are still common in many places and the way some people think hasn't changed much.
This is a story about friendship, love, hate and what it means to have a different skin colour in a narrow-minded society.
Juniper Jones a cheerful girl who thinks root beer floats are the best drinks known to man makes friends with the new boy in town who believes that he can't walk down the street without feeling like every single person wants to point a gun hat his head and pull the trigger because of the colour of his skin. Together they spend an invincible summer, probably the best and worst summer of their lives.

I recommend this book to people who have never suffered racism, people who think that it no longer happens or that it will never happen to them because it is a real eye-opener and when you read about the  monsters in white you will feel they are coming for you too no matter what colour you are.