My Mixed-Up Berry Blue Summer by Jennifer Gennari

Just like in the book when Eva says, “We won’t keep quiet about homophobia,” I think that people shouldn’t be afraid of homosexuality, and if they are they should talk about it so they aren’t so uncomfortable with it. Many people today are uncomfortable with or even afraid of homosexuality. It is one thing to disagree with homosexuality in your mind, but to try to get a law passed against it is unthinkable, at least to me. In My Mixed-Up Berry Blue Summer, people put up signs that say things like, “Take Back Vermont,” “Boycott Gay Businesses,” and “Lesbians Shouldn’t Have Children.” I think that things like that are very, very wrong. I also think that people should mind their own business about this subject. It should just be about what the heart wants. I think that if two people love each other, age, race, or gender shouldn’t matter. It talks a lot about homosexual marriage rights. My Mixed-Up Berry Blue Summer is also very political. I can relate to June in that sometimes I am different, but it is our differences that make us interesting. But when people get mad about the law and start boycotting her family’s business, June must save not only the shop but also her family’s rights. Under Vermont’s new civil law homosexuals can get married, and June’s mom and Eva plan to do just that. But everything changes when Eva, her mom’s girlfriend, moves in. All she wanted to do over summer vacation was go swimming in Lake Champlain and enter the Champlain Valley Fair Pie Competition. June Farrell is a twelve-year-old girl living in Vermont whose talent is making delicious pies.

My Mixed-Up Berry Blue Summer is a book about politics and pie. By Jennifer Gennari Houghton Mifflin Books

My Mixed-Up Berry Blue Summer by Jennifer Gennari