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Mar 18, 2024SnoIsleLib_Teen rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
The Help is set in the early 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi, and is about 3 black female maids finding equality in a world of segregation and injustice. The ladies gather those around the town to create a movement by writing a book to share…
Dec 15, 2023
The Help is about the authors retelling of her own personal experience with growing up with "The Help" The Help centres on a twenty-year old Skeeter, also known as Eugenia. This book tell the story of Black Maids that worked for white…
May 05, 2023
"This book is deeply moving, filled with poignancy, humor, and hope. I laughed, I cried, I re-read it. Read it!" - Raven P.
Jan 05, 2023katiehclark rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
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Aug 30, 2022R00383368 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Race relations in the United States have long been a topic in literature and non-fiction. It remains utterly puzzling that a country as prosperous as the United States, a century after waging war on the issue, can still sanction the abuse…
Apr 18, 2022gvianai rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I say, in the future, if I were to look back and make a list of five books that changed my life, The Help is most certainly going to make that list. it pulled me into 1960s Jackson, Mississipi where time and history shown in three varying…
Aug 14, 2021Anika_Singh rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Taking place in Mississippi in 1962, this book follows three women that come together to fight for a cause they all strongly believe in despite their differences that make them about as contrasting as a group of people can possibly be. As…
Jun 01, 2021Anita_Dickey rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I read this book to fulfil the goal read a book that everyone seems to have read but you. It has over a million ratings on goodreads. I enjoyed it very much. It made me laugh in parts. I feel so bad for those people that actually lived it.…
May 06, 2021pacl_teens rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
""The Help" is a historical fiction novel set during the peak of the American Civil Rights Era, when the South resisted change towards and rejected all beliefs of racial integration. Through the uncommon, nearly forbidden friendship of…
Mar 12, 2021WPL_Erin rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Loved it! It's a classic for a reason.
Jan 22, 20210424pat rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Racial tension. Southern USA.1960's
Nov 11, 2020thaitea7009 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
The Help is an extremely fun book with robust writing and genuine characters. There are three female protagonists, Minny Jackson, Aibilean Clark, and Skeeter Phelan. The book takes place in Jackson, Mississippi during 1960’s America.…
Nov 01, 2020kwsmith rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Sedately paced domestic drama about rich white ladies and their poor black maids during the 1960's civil rights movement. This book is the basis for the 2011 Academy Award winning film of the same name. My only complaint about this…
Aug 24, 2020anne1212li rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
This book itself is well-written and quite entertaining with how coloured people were treated during the 1900s. However, it is indeed a white book written from the perspective of a white person. I still loved the book. When you look at…
Aug 17, 2020TeaFloyd rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
This book would have been so much better for the black community if Stockett had written the book Skeeter had been writing. I found it extremely hard to get through the book because all of Aibileen and Minnie's chapters seem like pity for…
Apr 16, 2020TEENREVIEWCREW rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Kathryn Stockett’s The Help is an eye-opening book that follows the lives of two Black maids and one White woman in Jackson, Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement. After researching about The Help, I found that the book faced a…
Dec 05, 2019
I concur with the others - The Help is an engrossing page turner that grabs you by the heart.
Nov 20, 2019KorrAnn rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Definitely a must read, I love this book.
Apr 13, 2019Abbott Messer rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This is my all time favourite book. I reread it countless times. It took me through a rollercoaster of emotions- I couldn’t skip a page.
Mar 26, 2019cannotbeheard rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I listened to the audiobook of this. It was fantastic! I really loved the heart behind the book. I've never had a maid and I've never worked as one and I certainly don't know much about what it was like to live in Mississippi in the 60's.…
Feb 19, 2019kmobuckeye rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
sooo good! laughed and cried. hope the movie doesn't ruin it!
Nov 07, 2018pokano rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Engrossing novel about black women working as maids for white women in the South in the 1960s-70s. It's hard to imagine--at least for me--how appalling some of the white women were, so this book is a good lesson on how difficult it was for…
Sep 26, 2018elizabeth88_1 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This book, and the movie, brought back memories of the black woman who used to clean our house and look after me when my family lived in Richmond, Virginia! Her name was Geraldine, and she was like a second mother to me, but fortunately my…
Sep 25, 2018red_giraffe_213 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
I LOVED this book. We had this among others as a choice for freshman summer reading and I do not regret my decision. It took me only 3 days to read, and even though I usually have trouble finding the motivation to read, I could not put…
Jul 11, 2018WoodneathShirlee rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
1962 Jackson, Mississippi – Mix socialites, hired black maids and a a young ambitious woman who wants to write a tell-all book about life in Jackson. Unforgettable characters and one of my favorite books. Don’t forget to watch the movie…