Stella by Starlight

Sharon Draper is the author of this big-kid fiction historical fiction story.  (FIC DRA) She also wrote on of my favorite recent works, Out of My Mind.  This one is set during the 1930's in the South.  Stella and her younger brother are out late one night and they witness a meeting of the KKK close to their home!  Blacks were hunted by the Ku Klux Klan, a racist group who wanted them to stay separate from the white community.  Stella's father stands up tall and goes to the polls to cast his vote in the presidential election.  Whites made it very difficult for blacks to do that at the time, in order to keep them where they were.  But he is brave.  If you enjoy learning about our nation's past while reading a great story, don't miss this one.