Pieces of why
Titre
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Pieces of why
K. L. Going
Sommaire
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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.
Date de publication comme intervalle
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2015-2016
Description matérielle
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209 pages ; 20 cm
Note générale
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"Singing was the answer, until the question changed"--Cover.
"This edition is available for distribution only through the school market"--Page 4 of cover.
Terme de vedette-matière
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Children of prisoners -- Fiction.
Gospel singers -- Fiction.
Choirs (Music) -- Fiction.
Traumatic neuroses -- Fiction.
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Terme géographique
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New Orleans (La.) -- Fiction.
Résumé
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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.
Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN)
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9781338135831
9780803734746
Informations de publication
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New York, NY : Scholastic Inc., 2016.
©2015
| Bibliothèque | Numéro de rayon | Type de document | Code à barres du document | Statut |
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| McLeod | F GOI | Book | 30200000179622 | Fiction |