I read this book for the first time years ago, and I was sure I shared a review then, but I can't find it now...

After more than a decade, I still think about this book regularly -- sometimes several times a week!

When I first read it in 2014, I loved the connection through history that Audrey found as she learned more about Alice through the hidden journal she uncovered. A history buff myself, I loved learning about this period in our country's timeline through a person I knew little about before reading this book.

Eleven years later, I think this story is relevant in ways I hadn't dreamed of when it was released. With so many voices being silenced, and so much of our history being erased from official websites and databases, we need to learn about the real history of the United States that happened more in the margins than on the front page. We need books like this one that raise awareness of those folks in our past who were overlooked or ignored (or intentionally "misunderstood") because they didn't fit the narrative the history makers were creating. We all need to meet Alice. And then to go out in search of those even more marginalized, whose stories have been hidden away. We need to actively get to know the real people who make up our history, before their stories are erased for good!

I absolutely LOVED this book and have already recommended it to my Mom, believe it or not. Every so often, a young adult genre book catches my eye, and this is one of my all-time favorites.