The Help

We're reading The Help for our next meeting on January 24th (there will be pizza at the meeting and students who posted online book reviews are invited to join us).  We're watching The Help movie in the auditorium after school on January 20th.

Skeeter returns home to Mississippi from college in 1962 and begins to write stories about the African-American women that are found working in white households, which includes Aibileen, who grieves for the loss of her son while caring for her seventeenth white child, and Minny, Aibileen's sassy friend, the hired cook for a secretive woman who is new to town.