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Toning the Sweep
Angela Johnson's Coretta Scott King Award winning novel that traces three generations of African American women as they learn one another's truths.Three generations of African American women, each holding on to a separate truth. Their story -- encompassing racism and murder as well as the family commonplaces that make a life -- is one that readers will never forget.
Book Details
- Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
- Publish Date: Aug 1st, 1994
- Pages: 112
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 6.78in - 4.44in - 0.32in - 0.13lb
- EAN: 9780590481427
- Recommended age: 10-13
- Categories: • Family - Multigenerational• African American & Black
About the Author
Johnson, Angela: - Angela Johnson was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, but raised in Windham, Ohio; the only girl in a family of five. She now lives in Northeastern Ohio in a 100-year-old house full of plants. When not writing, she travels. On one of her trips to the California desert, the inspiration for her first novel, Toning the Sweep, came about.