The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett Holiday As the burn of electric

As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass

“This potent book about America’s most disgraceful sin establishes [Ta-Nehisi Coates] as a first-rate novelist

and Aidan wants to do everything he can to make things right for his new sibling from the beginning--from choosing the perfect name to creating a beautiful room to picking out the cutest onesie

that conventional wisdom is rarely wise

resilience

The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett Holiday As the burn of electricOxford, Mississippi, 1933. Abandoned by her mother one Christmas Eve, eleven year old Meg Lefleur has learned the hard way to rely on no one. Now one of the unadoptable "big girls" at the Lafayette County Orphan Asylum, she fights each day to keep her spirit unbowed. Birdie Calhoun, unmarried and outspoken, has come to Oxford to ask her socialite sister to help the struggling family she's left behind. But as the Depression tightens its grip, Birdie