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This is by far the best book of the series!!!!! I LOVED IT... I couldn't help but shed real tears. Would recommend sticking thru the series (which gets a little tiresome in the middle), just to be able to read this book.

Two teenaged boys, both fascinated with music, in a map dot town in North Carolina, become friends. Larry Lime is Black; Dwayne is White. Yes, times are changing, however slowly, and some folks aren't happy about that. As other reviewers have noted, the boys are able to avoid social pressures against their friendship a bit too easily. Since music is one of their initial bonds (although Larry Lime works for Dwayne's father, and they've obviously known each other all their lives), there are pages where most of the conversation is about chords, which Larry Lime is learning from a local jazz pianist, and introducing to Dwayne's rock band. These do not grip a non-musical reader. I'm a big fan of Edgerton, but on the whole, despite a bravura ending, this is Civil Rights Lite.