Ashley's Reviews > Monkey Town: The Summer of the Scopes Trial

Monkey Town by Ronald Kidd

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Dec 28, 10

bookshelves: historical-fiction, middle-grade
Read in January, 2008

This was an interesting way to learn more about the Scopes Trial and how it was the brainchild of local businessmen who wanted to put their town on the map. The narrator, however, was too ingenuous for me. Frances seemed like a very, very young fifteen; I wish Kidd had given her voice to a twelve-year-old instead. In fact, the freedom of movement Frances enjoys seems more appropriate for a kid than a young woman of the period.

Recommended on audio.

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