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Blackberries & Cream
Leslie Rivver
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Description for Blackberries & Cream
Hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: YFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 135 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
Have you ever had the feeling you weren't loved by the momma God gave you? Lucky for Gracie, she has two mommas. One cares for her every day while the other goes off to work. One is happy, strong and free while the other is sad, dark and depressed. One is black. The other is white. One Gracie must leave. Grace Callaway lives down deep in Alabama during a turbulent time of protests, boycotts, and sit-ins. It is a segregated world where black and white won't mix. But don't tell that to Ida Bell and Grace. Ida Bell has been ... Read more
Have you ever had the feeling you weren't loved by the momma God gave you? Lucky for Gracie, she has two mommas. One cares for her every day while the other goes off to work. One is happy, strong and free while the other is sad, dark and depressed. One is black. The other is white. One Gracie must leave. Grace Callaway lives down deep in Alabama during a turbulent time of protests, boycotts, and sit-ins. It is a segregated world where black and white won't mix. But don't tell that to Ida Bell and Grace. Ida Bell has been ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Green Writers Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
VT, United States
ISBN
9780996135771
SKU
V9780996135771
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-34
About Leslie Rivver
Leslie Rivver grew up in the Deep Alabama South. She ventured up the east coast for college and graduate school, spent close to a decade teaching children on the Arctic shores of Alaska, and now lives on a wild and cold mountain in Vermont.
Reviews for Blackberries & Cream
Leslie Rivver'sBlackberries and Creamis the deeply moving story of a special friendship between a wise and loving black woman named Ida Bell and a young white girl named Gracie from a prominent but troubled family.Set in a small town in Alabama in the 1960s, this powerful coming-of-age story for middle-grade children deals honestly and lovingly with issues ranging from the ... Read more