The Color Of Water

The Color Of Water by James McBride is about an African American child with a White mother and without a father. He also has eleven brothers and sisters that are African American. When he is little he never understood why his mom was not dark like him, when he would ask her about it she would say that she was just light skinned. As he got older he wanted to know about his mothers past and family, but she never answered any of the questions. Throughout the book you learn his mothers story and his as he is growing up.

Although this book had many lessons that you could learn from, it did not particularly appeal to me. It felt as if the book was just a book about their lives and didn't really have a plot.

A general tenth grade class could read this book without any problems. This book may be a little challenging to follow because this book is about two different peoples lives and it goes back and forth between every other chapter. They may like this book if they come from a diverse enviornment because it mostly deals with racial problems and racial interactions.