1st/1st Novel for adolescent readers about a girl living in a small in South Carolina with her aunt and uncle, and dealing with her fast-living father's coming back into her life.

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Title: Blessing in Disguise
Publisher: Delacorte Press, New York
Publication Date: 1995
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0385321031
ISBN 13: 9780385321037
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Printing: 1st Printing
Condition: New
Dust Jacket Condition: New

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Twelve-year-old Zambia Brown, living with her aunt and uncle in rural South Carolina, feels that life is dull, until her father opens a nightclub in town, which makes the community angry, but that makes Zambia long for excitement and reconciliation.

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A Blessing in Disguise is Eleanora E. Tate's third novel in a trilogy of books whose setting is Calvary County on the coast of South Carolina. Its sister books are The Secret of Gumbo Grove, a Parents' Choice Gold Seal Award winner, and Thank You, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.!, a National Council for the Social Studies-Children's Book Council Notable Children's Book, and a Child Study Association Children's Book of the Year. She is also the author of Retold African Myths. Her book Just an Overnight Guest, which was made into an award-winning movie, is a companion to Front Porch Stories at the One-Room School, an American Bookseller Pick of the Lists. Also a journalist, Ms. Tate is a former national president of the National Association of Black Storytellers, Inc. A native of Canton, Missouri, Ms. Tate currently lives with her hu

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