“How are you going to make history?” Red’s elderly black neighbor, Miss Georgia asks him when he says he doesn’t like history. It is 1972 in rural Virginia. Red’s father has died unexpectedly and his mama has to sell the family farm, the farm that’s been in the family for at least four generations. Red finds himself enjoying his young teacher’s approach to making them think. He worries about his friend, Rosie, and her violent father. And he wants to find the Freedom Church that Miss Georgia’s great grandfather had started before he was shot to death. This book has the same intensity that Curtis’ The Watsons Go to Birmingham has. The description of Emmett Till’s murder is graphic, but perfectly in touch with the reality of the times. This book is about kinship. And as Miss Georgia points out that may be more than those to whom you are related. It’s about being a part of history and coming to terms with a murder your great grandfather committed in order to gain property. But most of all its about making history and knowing that you stand up for what is right. Grades 5-9