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| Author: Janet McDonald |
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
ISBN-10: 014250193X
ISBN-13: 9780142501931
Sku: 33850897
Publish Date: 4/10/2007
Sales Rank: 21880
Pages:
144
Age Range:
16 to UP
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Raven flipped the baby onto his stomach for powdering and back over again for diapering before the white dust had even settled on his brown, bowed legs. (from the first line)
Raven watched her mother's eyelids twitch and listened to her snore. The sound startled the baby, then his body relaxed again, limp and heavy. Maybe I'll get that job they had in the paper today. Then I can help out more, Mommy won't have to work so much overtime. She considered the bundle on her lap, its warmth and weight, and listened to the hiss of air as the baby sucked from an empty bottle. He was growing real fast. Three months old and soon it would be April, then he'd be four months, May, five months, and on and on, for years and years. What did the future hold for them? She was scared. Please, God, please, God, please God, if you're up there, please give me that job.
| Raven never expected to be a mother at sixteen. Is she going to be just another high school dropout, a project girl with few prospects? Could be, except Raven has ambition. Still, when is she going to find the time to finish school? Then her older sister tells her about a spelling bee that promises the winner a scholarship for college. Spelling? There isn''t a subject she''s worse at. But once Raven''s got her mind set, nothing gets in her way... |
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Raven, a mother at the age of sixteen, is determined not to become just another high school dropout and decides to enter a spelling bee that promises the winner enrollment in a college prep program and a scholarship--even though spelling is her worst subject. Reprint. |
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Raven, a 16-year-old single mother, enters a spelling bee in the hopes of winning its top prize--enrollment in a college prep program and a scholarship. Although spelling has never been her strongest subject, Raven studies hard, determined to win in order to achieve a better life for herself and her infant son.
Raven, a 16-year-old single mother, enters a spelling bee in the hopes of winning its top prize--enrollment in a college prep program and a scholarship. Although spelling has never been her strongest subject, Raven studies hard, determined to win in order to achieve a better life for herself and her infant son.
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Kirkus Reviews
"The dialogue captures the pace and speech patterns of urban African-Americans, adding humor and descriptive power to the characterizations. Startlingly funny scenes add lightness to a work that, because of the subject matter, could have been very depressing. Although the ending is a little unbelievable and pat, on the whole it's satisfyingly hopeful." 10/15/2001 Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
"McDonald paints a vivid picture of a strong, hopeful girl in a strong, if sometimes prickly, family; the open discussion of intraracial issues and tensions is piquant and welcome...." - Deborah Stevenson October 2001
"The dialogue captures the pace and speech patterns of urban African-Americans, adding humor and descriptive power to the characterizations. Startlingly funny scenes add lightness to a work that, because of the subject matter, could have been very depressing. Although the ending is a little unbelievable and pat, on the whole it's satisfyingly hopeful." 10/15/2001 Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
"McDonald paints a vivid picture of a strong, hopeful girl in a strong, if sometimes prickly, family; the open discussion of intraracial issues and tensions is piquant and welcome...." - Deborah Stevenson October 2001
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