The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson is an amazing story about to adolescent girls overcoming racial boundaries. It is narrated by an African American girl named Clover, who is curious about the Caucasian girl who she sees on the other side of the fence behind her house. Both girls have been warned not to cross the fence that separates the two different racial cultures. When the Caucasian girl tries to join Clover and her African American friends in a game of jump rope she is rejected and shunned away. But Clover does get a chance to make a new friend that lives on the other side of the fence, Read and find out how!
This book would be a perfect book to read to younger children, especially with the whole Jena6 trial. It is a light and simple way to introduce the racial boundaries in history as well as today's society. Reading a book to children who are their age and describing the Civil War is going to be more effective and memorable than opening the text book to the section about Union and Confederate solders. The illustrations by E. B. Lewis alone can tell the entire story. The pictures are realistic and children can relate to them. This is a wonderful book for any Elementary School teacher to read their classrooms.
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