The Help by Kathryn Stockett

  I must start by saying that this is an "adult" book and will not be able to be in our library.  If you're interested in it, I'd love to talk to you about it and answer any questions you have.  If your parents have questions, I'd be happy to talk to them about it.

This book has to be in my all-time Top Ten Books, and that's saying something for a reading teacher.  :)  I've read this book twice (I suppose we could get into semantics, because I listened to part of it on audio), and I've loved it both times.  With the movie coming out, I figured you should know that it started as an amazing book.
Enter Jackson, Mississippi in 1961.  People are still doing goofy stuff, like judging people based on the color of their skin.  People whose skin is darker live in a different side of town, earn different wages for the same jobs, and cannot use the same facilities as white people.  This is the time of "separate but equal" and water fountains and restrooms which were labeled for "colored" people.  Follow the story from three different points of view, Aibileen, Miss Skeeter, and Minny tell the good and the bad about what it's like to work for the women of Jackson. 
Movie/Book Trailer of The Help (I found that I had to turn off the music at the top of the page and the comments throughout the trailer).  Based on the trailer, I have high hopes for how it will compare to the book.