You should see me in a crown

Title
You should see me in a crown

Personal Author EPSB
Leah, Johnson

Summary
Liz Lighty has always done her best to avoid the spotlight in her small, wealthy, and prom-obsessed midwestern high school, after all, her family is black and rather poor, especially since her mother died; instead she has concentrated on her grades and her musical ability in the hopes that it will win her a scholarship to elite Pennington College.

Year Published
2020-2021

Physical Description
324 pages ; 21 cm

Awards
2023 Young Reader’s Choice Award YRCA Senior nominee

Subject
African American teenage girls -- Fiction.
 
Proms -- Fiction.
 
Competition (Psychology) -- Fiction.
 
Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction.
 
Brothers and sisters -- Fiction.
 
Grandparents -- Fiction.
 
Friendship -- Fiction.
 
High schools -- Fiction.
 
Schools -- Fiction.
 
African Americans -- Fiction.
 
Lesbians -- Fiction.

Summary
Liz Lighty has always done her best to avoid the spotlight in her small, wealthy, and prom-obsessed midwestern high school, after all, her family is black and rather poor, especially since her mother died; instead she has concentrated on her grades and her musical ability in the hopes that it will win her a scholarship to elite Pennington College.

ISBN
9781338503296
 
9781338503265

Publisher
New York, New York : PUSH, [2021]
 
New York : Scholastic Press, 2020.
 
©2020


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