Rattlebone Review

A class assignment was to read a book called Rattlebone. The author is Maxine Clair. It is about a girl that goes through many situations in her life while the Brown vs. Board of Education is going on. At the beginning of the book, she is a child with this innocent mind that does not know what is going on, but then she begins growing older and her life begins to change. She wants to act like a woman and put stuff on (make-up) thinking that she is a woman. Her dad was taken away from her and her mother by a teacher, but since she was small, she did not understand it. She hangs out in the street with her friends/neighbors. One of them is Wanda and she kept a diary once that lots of things that happened to her, such as the first experiences that happened to her. She then has a boyfriend that is a Quander and her mom did not want her with a Quander boyfriend. Many situations with a plot twist that adds a new character each time to let the reader see something more.

As this story added new characters, it was not meaningless. The characters were each there for a purpose. When your write a writing piece, do not add a character because they are beautiful, but add it because they are important and have something significant that needs to be revealed.

I rate it a 3/5.

Other readers are welcome to tell me what they saw about this book in the comments below and the rate they give it.