Review: The Voting Booth

The Voting Booth by Brandy Colbert
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

The Voting Booth is an accessible YA novel that contemplates voting rights, redistricting, voter suppression, and events that have fueled the Black Lives Matter movement, like baseless traffic stops of black people. Marva is a social activist high school senior who has been trying to get out the vote. Though she casts her vote bright and early on Election Day, she encounters Duke, who had recently moved and whose address causes confusion about his proper polling location. Along the way they encounter others whose longtime polling sites have been closed, forcing them to scramble to new polling locations that are now understaffed and which promptly run out of ballots. When Duke finds that he isn't registered at his new address, Marva tries to help him complete a same-day registration at his proper polling site. Their voting journey results in them missing a full day of school, and also comprises trying to find Marva's beloved and missing kitty, Selma (aka on social media as "Eartha Kitty").

The events of the novel take place over the course of a single day, and the novel has a lot of charm covering its food for thought about elections in this country. A great book to offer your teen for summer reading. Marva is an example of "Be the Change You Wish to See in the World."

I received a courtesy audiobook copy of this book from Libro.fm in exchange for an honest review.

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