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It All Comes Down to This

It All Comes Down to This

English, Karen

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ISBN10: 035809853X
ISBN13: 9780358098539
Publisher: Clarion Books
Published: Dec 17 2019
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.57
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.60
Language: English
Awards: Kirkus Prize
A powerful middle grade coming-of-age novel set in a slowly integrating upper middle class Los Angeles neighborhood in the summer of 1965, from a Coretta Scott King Honor Award-winning author. Perfect for fans of Rita Williams-Garcia and Sharon M. Draper.

It's 1965, Los Angeles. Sophie is the new black kid in a nearly all-white neighborhood; her beloved sister, Lily, is going away to college soon; and her parents' marriage is rocky. Plus, there's her family's new, disapproving housekeeper to deal with. Then riots erupt in nearby Watts and a friend is unfairly arrested, and Sophie learns that life--and her own place in it--is even more complicated than she'd once thought.

Honest, witty . . . relatable. Unfairness and race-consciousness run through the story--so do surprises. Bigotry wears many guises. Kindness does too. --Wall Street Journal

Thoughtful and well-wrought . . . . Compassionate, pointed, and empowering. --Booklist, starred review

An impressive coming-of-age story. --Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Reveals how an impressionable and intelligent child learns from the injustices that touch her, her family, and her friends. --Publishers Weekly, starred review

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