Call Me Athena: Girl from Detroit

by Colby Cedar Smith

Book Overview

An enchanting novel in verse, Call Me Athena captures one young woman's struggle for independence, equality, and identity as the daughter of Greek and French immigrants in tumultuous 1930s Detroit.

Mary lives in a tiny apartment in Detroit in the 1930s with her Greek and French immigrant parents, her brothers, and her twin sister, and she questions why her parents ever came to America. She yearns for true love, to own her own...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1524865451
• ISBN13: 9781524865450
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 13 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 8 to 12