Johnson ( To Catch a Cheat) addresses important issues gracefully, particularly having the freedom to live a life of one’s choosing and the long-lasting effects of discrimination.
It’s a gripping mystery, and the plot shifts smoothly between Candice’s present-day story and flashback sections that reveal Lambert’s history of injustice. The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson At her late grandmother’s house in Lambert, South Carolina, African American. Varian Johnson, with a background in math and engineering, is the perfect author to create the history of this town and bury an inheritance in it.He scaffolds events and evidence in ways that our young sleuths, Candace and her new African American male friend Brandon Jones, are able to strategically solve the town’s mystery: who left millions of dollars to the city and where did they leave it. The two bookworms have just a few months to find the fortune and repair Candice’s grandmother’s legacy, and they come to discover how racism has poisoned the town over the years. Candice digs into the mystery along with Brandon, an 11-year-old neighbor who is being bullied. Candice then learns that her grandmother’s efforts to do so years earlier cost her both her reputation and her job as the first African-American city manager in Lambert. In the attic of Candice’s late grandmother’s house she finds a letter addressed to her grandmother, which promises treasure to the city if the letter’s puzzle can be solved.
After her parents divorce, 12-year-old Candice Miller begrudgingly moves with her mother from Atlanta to the small town of Lambert, S.C., for the summer.
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