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Jackson-Brown, Angela, 1968-

When stars rain down : a novel / - iv, 360 pages ; 22 cm

"Includes discussion questions"--Page 4 of cover.

"Opal Pruitt is just about to turn 18 in the oppressively hot summer of 1936. She works hard at her job, takes care of her beloved Granny, and dreams about boys with her cousin Lucille. The young black teenager's journey to adulthood will be forged in fire, though, as the Ku Klux Klan attacks her Colored Town neighborhood and she endures a vicious beating at the hands of an unknown white attacker. Although slavery is over, Parsons, Georgia is still starkly divided along unequal racial lines and Opal begins to fear the community's thirst for justice on her behalf could ignite a chain reaction with devastating consequences." -- Library Journal

ISBN: 9780785240440 0785240446

LCCN: 2020045148

Nat. Bib. No.: GBC141971 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 020133833 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Race relations--Fiction.
African American teenagers--Fiction.
Segregation--Fiction.
Violence--Fiction.
Communities--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Southern States--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Bildungsromans.
Historical fiction.
Christian fiction.

LC Class. No.: PS3610.A355526 / W47 2021

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.6