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Original Title:	Down Sand Mountain
ISBN:	0763638390 (ISBN13: 9780763638399)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Florida(United States)
Literary Awards:	SCBWI Golden Kite Award for Fiction (2009)

Down Sand Mountain

Steve Watkins

Hardcover | Pages: 327 pages

Rating: 3.55 | 163 Users | 39 Reviews

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In a tale full of humor and poignancy, a sheltered twelve-year-old boy comes of age in a small Florida mining town amid the changing mores of the 1960s.

It's 1966 and Dewey Turner is determined to start the school year right. No more being the brunt of every joke. No more "Deweyitis." But after he stains his face with shoe polish trying to mimic the popular Shoeshine Boy at the minstrel show, he begins seventh grade on an even lower rung, earning the nickname Sambo and being barred from the "whites only" bathroom. The only person willing to talk to him, besides his older brother, Wayne, is fellow outsider Darla Turkel, who wears her hair like Shirley Temple and sings and dances like her, too. Through their friendship, Dewey gains awareness of issues bigger than himself and bigger than his small town of Sand Mountain: issues like race and segregation, the reality of the Vietnam War, abuse, sexuality, and even death and grieving. Written in a riveting, authentic voice, at times light-hearted and humorous and at others devastating and lonely, this deeply affecting story will stay with readers long after the book is closed.

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Title	:	Down Sand Mountain
Author	:	Steve Watkins
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 327 pages
Published	:	October 14th 2008 by Candlewick Press
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. Fiction. Realistic Fiction

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Ratings: 3.55 From 163 Users | 39 Reviews

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This is an interesting and very unusual story that takes place during the racial unease of the 1960s, near the onset of the Vietnam War. Steve Watkins introduces a couple of characters that definitely hold some promise, Darwin Turkel and his sister Darla Turkel, and their interactions with the main character Dewey Turner are certainly unexpected and different. If the main character were a couple of years older I'm not sure if this would be classified as juvenile fiction, or even as young adult,

Reviewed by Grandma Bev for TeensReadToo.comIt's 1966 and there is still a lot of racial tension and discrimination in this small Florida town. The Vietnam war is in high gear, and Dewey Turner has many personal issues to deal with. Dewey desperately wants to be the "Shoeshine Boy" in next year's minstrel show at school, but dying his face with black shoe polish turns out to be the wrong thing to do because it won't wash off. The kids start calling him Sambo, and then the bullies won't let him

I liked this book, but it wasn't great. I had a hard time figuring out how the author wanted all the story lines to fit together.

What I liked best about this novel were Dewey's relationships: particularly his relationship with Darla and his relationship with his brother Wayne. Dewey's voice was very real and his coming-of-age experiences were depicted with great poignancy. I felt the story moved a little slowly in some places but overall it was a very believable story of a a 12-year-old boy growing up in a small southern town in the sixties.

Interesting subject matter -- racism in a very isolated small Southern town -- that just fell a little flat for me; poorly paced, maybe, as the ending seemed rather abrupt.

Between 3.5-4, Dewey got irritating or rather, frustrating sometimes. Just wanted him to understand something! And I can't figure out the intended audience entirely...