Reading Into History Book Club: ‘Crow,’ by Barbara Wright

The title of this novel has many connotations. Set at the turn of the 20th century, “Crow” is part of the Reading Into History monthly book club at the DiMenna Children’s Museum of the New-York Historical Society, which invites children 9 and older to read a work of historical fiction and share their thoughts online. At each event, they discuss the book in person and view related museum artifacts. This Sunday Barbara Wright herself will attend to discuss her novel, whose young African-American hero, Moses Thomas, is caught up in the Wilmington insurrection of 1898, in which white businessmen and former Confederate soldiers overthrew a lawfully elected — and mostly black — city government.