Pieces of Why
New York : Kathy Dawson Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, [2015]
Format: Book
Description: 209 pages ; 22 cm
Twelve-year-old Tia lives in a white slum in New Orleans with her mother, and her whole world revolves around singing in the gospel choir with her best friend, Keisha--but when practice is interrupted by a shooting outside the church, and a baby is killed, Tia finds that she cannot sing, and she is forced to confront her feelings about her incarcerated father who killed a girl in a failed robbery years before.
Subjects:
Gospel singers -- Juvenile fiction.
Children's choirs -- Juvenile fiction.
Children of prisoners -- Juvenile fiction.
Traumatic neuroses -- Juvenile fiction.
Fathers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction.
New Orleans (La.) -- Juvenile fiction.
Louisiana -- New Orleans.
Gospel singers -- Juvenile fiction.
Children's choirs -- Juvenile fiction.
Children of prisoners -- Juvenile fiction.
Traumatic neuroses -- Juvenile fiction.
Fathers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction.
New Orleans (La.) -- Juvenile fiction.
Louisiana -- New Orleans.
Target Audience: 790L
ISBN:
9780803734746 (hardcover)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
C Going | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Children's Fiction | In |
C Going | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Children's Fiction | In |
C Going | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Children's Fiction | In |
C Going | Edgewood | Children's Fiction | In |
C Going | Southeast | Children's Fiction | In |