title: Open Your Eyes: Extraordinary Experiences in Faraway Places
author: Jill Davis
description: Grade 7 Up-Sometimes the most life-altering moments in young people's lives come as a result of being exposed to another culture. Davis seeks to explore these changes by gathering stories and memoirs from noted authors, among them Lois Lowry, Susie Morgenstern, Katherine Paterson, Graham Salisbury, and Jean Fritz. While most of the selections focus on evolved thinking while on foreign sojourns, two of the best are set in the United States. In a story guaranteed to make readers laugh, howl, and then cry, Piper Dellums, the privileged daughter of an African-American congressman, looks forward to making a sister of a South African exchange student. However, the teen who arrives at her doorstep is white and makes the mistake of thinking that her host family must be the congressman's servants. In "Looking for America," Elizabeth Partridge spends some time in the South and is astonished to find that a black cook who prepares the food can not drink from the family's glasses, but must use a mason jar. At his evocative best, Harry Mazer takes readers back to when he was a teenaged GI, bailing out of a flaming World War II bomber and wondering what happened to a friend who never returned. In this time of rising xenophobia, the message of these stories assumes new importance. It is best summed up by Davis's choice of a Mark Twain quotation: "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness."-Cindy Darling Codell, Clark Middle School, Winchester, KY<br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  Copyright © 2020 Rachel Blackledge
  
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  Note. This is a work of fiction.  
    
  Names, characters, places, and incidents are a product of the author’s
  imagination. Locales and public names are sometimes used for atmospheric
  purposes. Any resemblance to actual people, living or dead, or to businesses,
  companies, events, institutions, or locales is completely coincidental.  
    
  ISBN 978-0-9907804-5-8  
    
  Keep Me In Sight / Rachel Blackledge - 1st ed.  
    
  Cover design by: Rena Hoberman  
  Printed in the United States of America  
    
  For more information about the author, please visit: www.rachelsquared.com
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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