- African Americans, Fiction, Flight, Juvenile fiction
Cassie Louise Lightfoot, eight years old in 1939, has a dream: to be free to go wherever she wants for the rest of her life. One night, up on "tar beach" --the rooftop of her family's Harlem apartment building--her dream comes true.
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Grave, earnest, warm and effortless.
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- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- effortlessdemanding
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Faith Ringgold, Faith Ringgold
- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 32
- Publisher
- Knopf Books for Young Readers, Perfection Learning Prebound, Demco Media
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780517580318
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