- African Americans, Child sexual abuse, Fathers and daughters, Fiction
Marie, the only black girl in the eighth grade willing to befriend her white classmate Lena, discovers that Lena's father is doing horrible things to her in private.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and contemporary.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Jacqueline Woodson
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 115
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Puffin Books, Perfection Learning
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780142417041
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