Words By Heart

by Ouida Sebestyen
my collection, paper, 135 pages

Wow. This was an amazing book. It's been in my collection a really long time (I had it in my LA classroom when I taught freshman English in Jordan!), but I don't think I had ever read it before. Lena is a black girl growing up in 1910 in a white community. She's very good at memorizing and wins a Scripture contest. Her father is her hero and he lives his faith in a way that's hard for Lena to understand.

I really enjoyed this story. It says a lot in its short 100+ pages!