Been a while since i've read a "young reader" book but i knocked out this 1977 Newberry Award winner this weekend. Probably needed to, though i won't read another young adult book soon, i don't think. This book concerns racial issues in the South in the 1930s ...
Started last week and hope to finish this week a book making a bit of a splash, about the ''first immortal cells.'' Without her knowing it, doctors at Johns Hopkins in 1951 took cancerous cells from Henrietta Lacks, a 30-year-old woman (pictured on the cover) who would be dead a few months later (on the day after Bobby Thomson hit the homer.) Unlike any cells before, Henrietta's remained alive in the lab and kept growing and growing, something scientists/doctors had been trying to do for years. Her cells would now circle the earth three times and have been used for many many medical advances...I'm halfway though...
Then I think i'll have to take a break and read either "The Help" or the new Mickey Mantle book, and mix in some James Bond short story-sized stories.
SEEYA!
