When you first dive into reading this book you think skin color and books. I know what your thinking. This book is based on actual people who skin was blue and the Kentucky Pack Horse Library. Now Cussy love the name is a woman who skin in blue and is also a librarian for the Pack horse Library something that was developed and ran for 8 years during President's Roosevelts time. Now she is trying to keep her job but also wanting to please her father by doing as he asks. What he does realize is that he is putting his daughter in danger. What I love about Cussy is that she loves to read to anyone who can't read a written word and how she loves her job. To be able to do a job you are passionate about and help the people are 2 great things.