Blackberries and Cream - Hardcover

Rivver, Leslie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0996135774 ISBN 13: 9780996135771

Publisher: Green Writers Press, 2015

Synopsis

"Her name is just Grace, no middle name. Her daddy says she's 100% pure grace and nothing else. She lives in the Deep Alabama South in a time of crisis. Protests. Boycotts. Riots. Sit ins. An unequal world.One thing's equal, though, and that's Grace and her caretaker, Ida Bell. Black and white together. Ida Bell says that slavery has run its course, and she's having none of its leftovers. But life doesn't feel so equal the summer Grace turns ten. Things are going dark. A burned up house, a dead baby girl. Then, Grace is told that the family will be moving. Moving means just one thing: leaving Ida Bell. Grace knows she cannot go. She cannot let go. Ida Bell is the only stable momma Grace has ever had. Her other momma's got the whole family scared to breathe because she sinks into depression more and more. Grace has to find a way out. But can she find the answer within her own heart? It's the only place that holds something nothing can take away."

About this title

Review:

"This is an endearing and charming first novel." --Karen Hesse, Newbery Medal and MacArthur Award winner, author of Out of the Dust

- - Karen Hesse

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Green Writers Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0996135774
• ISBN 13: 9780996135771
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 214