Pieces of why
Title
:
Pieces of why
Personal Author EPSB
:
K. L. Going
Summary
:
Twelve-year-old Tia lives in a white slum in New Orleans with her mother, and her whole world revolves around singing in the gospel choir with her best friend, Keisha--but when practice is interrupted by a shooting outside the church, and a baby is killed, Tia finds that she cannot sing, and she is forced to confront her feelings about her incarcerated father who killed a girl in a failed robbery years before.
Year Published
:
2015-2016
Physical Description
:
209 pages ; 20 cm
Note
:
"Singing was the answer, until the question changed"--Cover.
"This edition is available for distribution only through the school market"--Page 4 of cover.
Subject
:
Children of prisoners -- Fiction.
Gospel singers -- Fiction.
Choirs (Music) -- Fiction.
Traumatic neuroses -- Fiction.
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Geographic Term
:
New Orleans (La.) -- Fiction.
Summary
:
Twelve-year-old Tia lives in a white slum in New Orleans with her mother, and her whole world revolves around singing in the gospel choir with her best friend, Keisha--but when practice is interrupted by a shooting outside the church, and a baby is killed, Tia finds that she cannot sing, and she is forced to confront her feelings about her incarcerated father who killed a girl in a failed robbery years before.
ISBN
:
9781338135831
9780803734746
Publisher
:
New York, NY : Scholastic Inc., 2016.
©2015
| Library | Call Number | Type | Item Barcode | Status |
|---|
| McLeod | F GOI | Book | 30200000179622 | Fiction |