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Indigo & Ida

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2 of 2 copies available
Eighth-grade aspiring journalist Indigo has a plan.
She's determined to win back her two best friends, Abbie and Manning, who drifted away from her as they got more popular. So now Indigo is going to become popular too—by breaking an important news story that gets everyone's attention.
Indigo's reporting about an unfair school policy puts her in the spotlight, and her plan seems to work. Suddenly everyone thinks she's cool. Including Abbie and Manning!
At the same time, Indigo stumbles upon a book by journalist and activist Ida B. Wells—with private letters written by Ida tucked inside. Reading about Ida's life and work prompts Indigo to keep investigating her school's policies. She soon finds out that the rules aren't enforced equally. In fact, the harshest punishments tend to fall on Black and brown students.
When Indigo keeps reporting on this issue, her newfound popularity starts to slip away. Her friends tell her she's overreacting. Classmates say she's too aggressive, too negative, too annoying.
But Ida gets it. Ida spent her whole life battling racism. And as Indigo reads more of Ida's letters, she realizes she'll have to choose between keeping quiet and fighting for justice.
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      February 13, 2023
      In Capps’s endearing debut, biracial (white and Black) eighth grader Indigo Fitzgerald faces scrutiny and microaggressions from her peers during her campaign for class president. When Indigo, an investigative vlogger, intentionally lands herself in detention to interrogate her school’s detention policy, which she believes is disproportionately harsh against students of color, she borrows a copy of the autobiography of journalist and activist Ida B. Wells (1862–1931), which contains letters between the pages written by Wells to an unnamed friend. Inspired by Wells’s drive and determined to better her own school, Indigo decides to run for class president. But when she posts a vlog about her detention policy findings (“No white students are being sent to after-school prison,” she says), her initially supportive classmates accuse her of disregarding “important issues” such as a no-homework mandate, claiming that “not everything is about race.” Wells’s fictional letters—created by Capps, who “used real stories from Ida’s life to shape them,” as outlined in an author’s note—appear throughout, focusing on historical aspects of the story. In particular, they shed light on the figure’s accomplishments and explore how her legacy bolsters contemporary advocacy pursuits. Forthright conversations surrounding privilege between Indigo and her white mother further elevate this complex depiction of race and discrimination. Ages 10–13. Agent: Shannon Hassan, Marsal Lyon Literary.

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