02657cam a2200325 4500 525545230 TxAuBib 20211105120000.0 ||||||s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780316528818 0316528811 B07FHZ51SW Amazon 1bf8d02e-96c6-43f7-9d73-fa9cdd33e0ab OverDrive (Reserve ID) 4156187 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Parsons, Karyn. How High the Moon [Libby eBook]. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2019. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2429kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<b><i>To Kill a Mockingbird</i> meets <i>One Crazy Summer</i> in this powerful, bittersweet debut about one girl's journey to reconnect with her mother and learn the truth about her father in the tumultuous times of the Jim Crow South.</b> <p><b><br /></b></p> <p><b>"Timely, captivating, and lovely. So glad this book is in the world." —Jacqueline Woodson, author of <i>Brown Girl Dreaming</i></b><br /></p> <p><br /></p> <p>In the small town of Alcolu, South Carolina, in 1944, 12-year-old Ella spends her days fishing and running around with her best friend Henry and cousin Myrna. But life is not always so sunny for Ella, who gets bullied for her light skin tone, and whose mother is away pursuing a jazz singer dream in Boston.<br /> So Ella is ecstatic when her mother invites her to visit for Christmas. Little does she expect the truths she will discover about her mother, the father she never knew and her family's most unlikely history.<br /> And after a life-changing month, she returns South and is shocked by the news that her schoolmate George has been arrested for the murder of two local white girls.<br /> Bittersweet and eye-opening, <i>How High the Moon</i> is a timeless novel about a girl finding herself in a world all but determined to hold her down.</p>. Juvenile Literature. Historical Fiction. Juvenile Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=1bf8d02e-96c6-43f7-9d73-fa9cdd33e0ab&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=1bf8d02e-96c6-43f7-9d73-fa9cdd33e0ab&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=1bf8d02e-96c6-43f7-9d73-fa9cdd33e0ab&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)