The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond

by Brenda Woods

Book Overview

Coretta Scott King Honor winner Brenda Woods' moving, uplifting story of a girl finally meeting the African American side of her family explores racism and how it feels to be biracial, and celebrates families of all kinds. Violet is a smart, funny, brown-eyed, brown-haired girl in a family of blonds. Her mom is white, and her dad, who died before she was born, was black. She attends a mostly white school where she sometimes feels like a brown leaf...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399257144
• ISBN13: 9780399257148
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Nancy Paulsen Books
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7