Category: Review
Author: Gordon Korman
Genres: Middle Grade, Mystery, Realistic Fiction, To-read, Young Adult
Link, Michael, and Dana live in a quiet town. But it's woken up very quickly when someone sneaks into school and vandalizes it with a swastika. Nobody can believe it. How could such a symbol of hate end up in the middle of their school? Who would do such a thing? Because Michael was the first person to see it, he's the first suspect. Because Link is one of the most popular guys in school, everyone's looking to him to figure it out. And because Dana's the only Jewish girl in the whole town, everyone's treating her more like an outsider than ever. The mystery deepens as more swastikas begin to appear. Some students decide to fight back and start a project to bring people together instead of dividing them further. The closer Link, Michael, and Dana get to the truth, the more there is to face-not just the crimes of the present, but the crimes of the past.
Gordon Korman’s “Linked” about a middle school who is vandalized with swastikas is a truely important read for everyone, not just middle schoolers. How could it keep happening at the middle school in Chokecherry, Colorado? No one knows, but it does. The reader will discover that this story was inspired by a similar event in Tennessee in 1998.
In Korman’s story, the Chokecherry must face it’s past as it’s also working on its present. The story will leave you guessing until the end as to “who done it.”
It’s fictional story mystery is actually as big a mystery as why there is still so much intolerance in the world today. I hope the readers of this book will better understand tolerance after reading this wonderful story.
Linked
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