Amanda loves having a first-day-of-summer birthday party. She can invite anyone she wants - and that doesn't mean fatso Ernestine Harris.Ernestine hates having school start the week after her birthda
Both Ernestine and Amanda get an unexpected shock when they enter eighth grade at Du Bois. Their best friends, Alicia and Clovis, have decided to test the "waters of integration" by attending the form
In seventh grade, Amanda has decided she's going to become a world-famous dancer - she's already one of the best students at Miss Davis's new dance studio on Monroe Street. Ernestine has no interest i
Sixth grade looks like a drag for Ernestine until Wilhelmina, a tall, smart, super cool newcomer, gets her to enter a school speech contest.Amanda loves sixth grade, especially her secret club for the
“Belton does an admirable job of letting Leah describe her despair and the alienation she feels from her parents, especially her mother, whose own grief makes her seem insensitive to Leah… Readers who
Ernestine is too fat and acts like she can play the piano better than anyone - at least that's what Amanda thinks.Amanda is stuck-up and has a big mouth - Ernestine knows that's true.And to top it all
In the evening the residents of Church Street gather on Miss Ida's porch to share memories and hear stories about events in the past, events significant to them as Black people
In the evening the residents of Church Street gather on Miss Ida's porch to share memories and hear stories about events in the past, events significant to them as Black people
Sea grass basket . . . Sweetgrass basket . . . Beauty, Her Basket. "I stick my nose inside the basket as far as it can go. I want to smell its secrets." Sandra Belton and Cozbi A. Cabrera inv
