She enters sixth grade in 1954, just after her Missouri town acts upon the Supreme Court school desegregation decision and closes the "colored school" the girl has attended. Retrieved March 18, 2017.) reaches into her own childhood to shape this immediate and affecting novel narrated by strong and smart Rosemary. ^ "Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award: Cumulative Master List 1988-2015" (PDF).Missouri Association of School Librarians.
CCBC Choices 2008: Fiction for Children (PDF). A real, at times raw tale about a winning and insightful young heroine during a bittersweet era. ^ "A Friendship for Today (starred review)".Patricia McKissack writes a heart-warming story of friendship during a difficult time in our history. This simply told story will leave readers pondering our progress-or lack thereof-in race relations over the past 50 years. Hamilton, are complex creations, conflicted and imperfect but full of wisdom as they grope their way along life's road. Bob at the grocery store to Rosemary's divorcing parents to the stubbornly courageous Mrs. McKissack's secondary characters, from Mr.
^ "The Honest-to-Goodness Truth: Reviews".2011 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award - nominee.2009-10 William Allen White Children's Book Award - nominee.
one giant step back nature of the civil rights struggle are valuable, whether children encounter them on their own or in a classroom, where the novel will poignantly extend character education and history curricula." Ī Friendship for Today has also been reviewed by The Horn Book Magazine, Kirkus Reviews, Library Media Connection, Multicultural Review, and Publishers Weekly. School Library Journal, in its review of A Friendship for Today, found it "A wealth of historical references, from civil rights to polio vaccine to early TV, is embedded in the narrative." and concluded "Readers will enjoy the protagonist's spunky, resilient response to adversity and her candid, often amusing observations of human nature." and Booklist wrote "McKissack's insights into the two steps forward. A Friendship for Today is a 2007 book by Patricia McKissack about the life of a girl, Rosemary Patterson, attending one of the first integrated Missouri schools during the 1950s.
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