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National Book Award Finalist * Newbery Honor Book * Coretta Scott King Award Winner

This towering classic from the esteemed author Virginia Hamilton "is like a thoughtfully designed African American quilt. It is finely stitched, tightly constructed,... Read Full Overview

With her father long gone and M'Vy, her practical-nurse mother, away most of the time 14-year-old Teresa (Tree) care for her retarded older brother, Dab. . . . Poetic, many-layered . . . this is Hamilton at her best, with a humane acceptance of people in their struggle, and hope... Read Full Overview

For use in schools and libraries only. Fourteen-year-old Tree encounters a young stranger who turns out to be the ghost of her mother's dead brother and who takes her into an exploration of her family's recent past.

For use in schools and libraries only. Fourteen-year-old Tree encounters a young stranger who turns out to be the ghost of her mother's dead brother and who takes her into an exploration of her family's recent past.