The Girl who Fell from the Sky Reading Response Fri: May 2nd, 2013.

    In the story" The Girl who Fell From the Sky", it talks about a light-skinned girl who is actually half white and black. Rachel the main character goes through social issues such as discrimination, and prejudice, but in a slightly different way. She moves in with her grandmother after her mother dies. The grandmother's house is in a very "black" neighborhood. the darker colored kids at school make fun of her for not having "black girl" hair. Rachel is scared to hang out with a white girl because the black girls will make fun of her. The chapters are from 4-5 different point of views, and three of them are from when Rachel's brother died, and Rachel is around six years old. The other two to three point of views is when Rachel is a teenager at school after her mother died.

   I think this is a very unique and interesting story. One way it is interesting is the fact that this social racism in the late nineties is very different from all the typical racism stories and movies today. Instead of being a colored girl and being bullied by white kids and folks, it is about a girl who is sort of an opposite situation. Rachel had a black father, while her mother was white. She has lighter skin, "non-black" hair, which is straight and pretty. Rachel gets bullied for her hair, and she ends up cutting it really short so nobody will be like "You think you're so pretty with that hair of yours don't you?" . This is the kind of bullying that she is being received. Rachel's blue eyes which black hair makes her stand out a lot. I thought this was interesting because in this time period, it is not just black people being bullied because of their race.

    In  conclusion, I think this is a very good book. The sort of altered topic on racism is very interesting, and I like the fact that it jumps from time to time even though it is a historic fiction book. I recommend this book for people who don't really like historic fictions!