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How high the moon [electronic resource]. Karyn Parsons.

Parsons, Karyn. (Author). Parsons, Karyn. (Added Author).

Summary:

To Kill a Mockingbird meets One Crazy Summer in this powerful, bittersweet about one girl's journey to reconnect with her mother and learn the truth about her father in the tumultuous times of the Jim Crow South. In the small town of Alcolu, South Carolina, in 1944, 12-year-old Ella spends her days fishing and running around with her best friend Henry and cousin Myrna. But life is not always so sunny for Ella, who gets bullied for her light skin tone and whose mother is away pursuing a jazz singer dream in Boston. So Ella is ecstatic when her mother invites her to visit for Christmas. Little does she expect the truths she will discover about her mother, the father she never knew and her family's most unlikely history. And after a life-changing month, she returns South and is shocked by the news that her schoolmate George has been arrested for the murder of two local white girls. Bittersweet and eye-opening, How High the Moon is a timeless novel about a girl finding herself in a world all but determined to hold her down. "Timely, captivating, and lovely. So glad this book is in the world." —Jacqueline Woodson, author of Brown Girl Dreaming

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  • ISBN: 9781549175350
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (6 audio files) : digital
  • Edition: Unabridged.

Content descriptions

Participant or Performer Note:
Narrator: Karyn Parsons.
Target Audience Note:
Text Difficulty 3
MG/Middle grades (4th-8th)
4.5 ATOS Level
680 Lexile.
Reproduction Note:
Electronic reproduction. New York: Little, Brown Young Readers, 2019. Requires the Libby app or a modern web browser.
Subject:
Juvenile Fiction.
Historical Fiction.
Juvenile Literature.

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