I really think that a lot of my students will enjoy this book- it includes murder (who is the skeleton in the wall?), it includes social justice not only of Jim Crow days, but also today, and it includes good family relationships. We all have heard horrors of the 50's for African Americans, but I don't know that we have ever really read about someone who is slowly coming to the realization of the inequities of society, and how he is having to parse out his loyalties from it. And I appreciate that approach. It shows that people are able to change, despite being urged into the KKK or when a young teen sees his dad taking advantage of someone solely because of skin color. And it also describes a young girl of today who is also trying to figure out who that skeleton is, and how it has made an impact on her today.