A+Friendship+for+Today

This book is about an African American 12 year old girl named Rosemary Patterson. She had to go to a white kids school for her 6th grade because the government closed her old school down.Her best friend j.j. contracts polio just before school starts.She had a rough time in her new school because kids were treating her bad because she was the only African American girl there.Rosemary had to sit nest to her neighbor Grace. Grace's family didn't like African American people. Rosemary started to be friends with Grace. They realized that no matter what color you are,you are the same as everyone else.Carolay6S

A friendship for today’s main character is Rosemary, Who is very unique and intelligent. Rosemary just wants to fit in with the crowd. After she moves to a new school, Things start to get harder. She suffers it alone since her best friend JJ has Polio. She stands strong until she finds her worst enemy Grace. Also known as ‘Grace the tasteless.’ Later further in the book, Rosemary becomes friends with grace. She also realizes that no matter what color you are; you are the same as everyone else. Nadine 6JD

I can actually relate to this book there was this new girl that started going to my old school that was African American. People would treat her really bad I would sometimes talk to her but not always, one day she actually started crying because nobody would talk or hang out with her and she thought that was because of her skin color. But I thought it really wasn’t about your skin color just on how your personalities. Yilianna 6JD

I think this is a very uniqe way of telling the truth about life. Life can be difficult sometimes. This book is a great realistic fiction. I think I can really realate how Rosemary feels in the book.I hope people could realize everyone is equal. No matter what color the skin is. Nadine 6JD

I think A Friendship for Today is a very good book because it shows the transfer from separate raced schools to integrated schools. It shows how an African American girl thinks as the only colored girl at school. It shows how she reacts to all the bad things in her life, like when her best friend J.J. gets a terrible disease and her mother and father yell at each other all the time. She also finds a friend that you never would think to be a friend. I'd rate this book a 5 out of 5! Carolyn 6s

This book is about a girl named Rosemary, a 6th grader, who is not at all excited about integration. Not only will she be the only black kid in her class but she has to sit next to "Grace the Tasteless" a mean white girl from the next street down. Her parents are having trouble staying together and her best friend has polio. As you can see Rosemary is having a tough time in 6th grade. This book is historical fiction that takes place in the mid 1950's. -Niki 6G

I think that this book is a great because after Rosemary, the girl in the story, and her best friend, J.J, plan on going to school together their plans get ruined when J.J. gets a terrible disease and Rosemary ends up going to an all white school by herself. The kids treat her badly there. J.J. ends up going to a hospital far away. Kathryn 6JD