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This is a wonderful book! My girlfriend is a Literacy teacher and when she told me about this book I just had to read it for myself. I laughed so hard at so many things! It's a great book by an amazing author. I recommend it to any young lady who would like to see what an unstoppable spirit looks like.


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Unstoppable Octobia May Sharon Flake 9780545609609 Books Reviews

My granddaughter had a difficult time starting this book but once into it -- she loved it!
Great book, timely delivery.
Great!
I enjoyed this book, it kept me on my toes wondering what would happen next.
There were many things I liked about this book and a few things I did not. On the positive side, I really enjoyed Octobia May and her friend Jonah. Octobia May is a girl full of spunk and curiosity who relishes the freedom living with her aunt gives her after being smothered by her parents after nearly dying. Unfortunately, she tends to misuse her freedom to spy on one of her aunt's boarders, Mr. Davenport and she drags her friend Jonah into her misadventures. Her determination to prove Mr. Davenport is a vampire exasperates her aunt and everyone else around her. And her neighbors highly disapprove of her behavior as it is 1953 and she is expected to behave with more decorum. But slowly she starts to realize that what she thought was going on isn't what is going on at all and she better figure things out in a hurry before she finds herself losing all her new found freedom.

I enjoyed the look at a time period I am not overly familiar with and what life was like for many African Americans. The twist that Flake adds to the story is an intriguing one and one that I don't think most middle grade readers will have spent much time pondering. Octobia May also finds herself confronting the whole 'don't rock the boat' ideology that many people find themselves sitting in as she listens to her aunt and others talk about changes that would like to see but who are unwilling for the most part to help seek those changes.

The problems I had with the book revolve around the style of writing and the occasional use of dialect. At first I thought these were just errors but they kept happening so I then assumed that it was supposed to be a way of speaking, which I found a bit irritating. I have no idea how realistic this is for the time (1953) and place (African American community in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) but it rubbed me the wrong way a bit. Not enough to stop me from reading the book, but enough to make it a much less smooth read.

The use of present tense didn't really bother me as it works to keep the reader knowing only what Octobia May knows which adds tension. But the short often incomplete sentences were sometimes hard to follow and I didn't always know who was talking or to whom.

Overall, the story was enjoyable with plenty of action and tension, great characters, and an interesting setting. But the style and writing could have been smoother.
My review from goodreads

I just want to say for the record that this was a cover buy. I mean come on look at it. Then I want to go on and say that when you pick up this book to remember that it is a children's book.

I read this book thinking that it was going to be about a young girl on a supernatural mystery thrill ride. While it was a book about a young girl and an adventure, the supernatural part was not all that present, and for spoiler reason I won't say why. I read this book for #MarchMysteryMadness, and I'm not disappointing with what I read, but to be honest with myself, due to the way that it was written, (I thought the sentence structure was very choppy) it took me about 100 pages into the book, and to get a hang of the rhythm of the book and how it would read from the mind of a little girl btw the ages of 7-10 in 1953.

The book was filled with historical references (Thurgood Marshall, Korean War is mentioned and even goes into explaining how it was for a Negro soldier to be with the ranks of whites who didn't even want them around and belittle them, and they even mention Satchel Paige) and I think it can definitely will show you a small slice of what the world was like in 1953 in a small town, in a boarding house with two rambunctious kids running around during the summer time. It even touched on what it was like for women in those days, especially a black woman, owning her own business and wanting that business to grow, and to see so much hate for that (coming from both blacks and white), as if the only "real" role for women in that day, especially being black, was in a subservient manner or nothing more than a house wife waiting to cook, clean, or iron her husbands shirts.

Was this book for me? No, but I don't regret reading it. It set out in my mind being one thing, but absolutely took the first right hand turn on the left and went in another direction.

It showed a young girl with an unquestionable amount of curiosity in her, and the eagerness and strong will to keep on fighting, searching and asking questions of the world around her. And an never ending quest to be as free as she could. You go Octobia May, I see you girl.
My daughter enjoyed this book. She could not put it down this summer.
This is a wonderful book! My girlfriend is a Literacy teacher and when she told me about this book I just had to read it for myself. I laughed so hard at so many things! It's a great book by an amazing author. I recommend it to any young lady who would like to see what an unstoppable spirit looks like.