Jesus Land: A Memoir by Julia Scheeres

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Publication Information: New York: Counterpoint 2005. 356 p.

Reading Level: Adults
Lexile: 990

Alex Award 2006

Publishers Weekly, vol 252, issue 32, p49
Library Journal, vol 130, issue 18, p86
Kirkus Reviews, July 15, 2005

Scheeres and her black adopted brother, David, are the victims of racism first in their Calvinist home in Indiana in the 1970s and then when their surgeon father and missionary-minded mother send the teens to a fundamentalist Dominican Republic reform school that is run like boot camp. Julia and David get through together and their sibling bond is strengthened.

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