Author Winner
Motown and Didi by Call Number: F M992moISBN: 9780440957621Publication Date: 1987-09-01Motown lives in a burned-out building one floor above the rats, searching out jobs every day, working his muscles every night, keeping strong, surviving. Didi lives in her cool dream bubble, untouched by the Harlem heat that beats down on her brother until only drugs can soothe him. Didi escapes, without needles, in her tidy plans and stainless visions, etchings of ivycovered colleges where her true life will begin. Didi can survive inside her own safe mind, until Motown steps into her real world and makes it bearable. Together they can stand the often brutal present. What about the future?
Author Honors
Circle of Gold by
Mattie is determined to get her mother a beautiful gold pin for Mother's Day, even though she has not saved enough money and has just lost her job.
Call Number: F B694c 1994ISBN: 9780590432665Publication Date: 1996-01-01
A Little Love by
Though she has been raised lovingly by her grandparents, a black teenager goes in search of her father.
Call Number: F H18LISBN: 0399210466Publication Date: 1984-06-22
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