Brenda Woods
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
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Description
On her tenth birthday, Leah receives a surprise gift from glamorous Aunt Olivia, Mama's only sister, who lives in Los Angeles. It is a red rose box. Not many people in 1958 Louisiana have seen such a beautiful traveling case, covered with red roses, filled with jewelry, silk bedclothes, expensive soaps...and train tickets to California. Soon after, Leah and her sister, Ruth, find themselves in Hollywood, far away from cotton fields...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Violet is a smart, funny, brown-eyed, brown-haired girl in a family of blonds. Her mom is white, and her dad, who died before she was born, was black. She attends a mostly white school where she sometimes feels like a brown leaf on a pile of snow. She?s tired of people asking if she?s adopted. Now that Violet?s eleven, she decides it?s time to learn about her African American heritage. And despite getting off to a rocky start trying to reclaim her...
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In August 1965, twelve-year-old Eden's older cousin from Mississippi comes to visit her in Los Angeles, and while the Watts Riots erupt around them, they continue their investigation of the disappearance of Winter's father ten years ago.