How High The Moon
Autor Karyn Parsonsen Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 mar 2019 – vârsta până la 12 ani
Boston was nothing like South Carolina. Up there, colored folks could go anywhere they wanted. Folks didn't wait for church to dress in their fancy clothes. Fancy was just life. Mama was a city girl . . . and now I was going to be one too.
It's 1944, and in a small, Southern, segregated town, eleven-year-old Ella spends her summers running wild with her cousins and friends.
But life isn't always so sunny.
The deep racial tension that simmers beneath their town's peaceful facade never quite goes away, and Ella misses her mama - a beautiful jazz singer, who lives in Boston.
So when an invitation arrives to come to Boston for a visit Ella is ecstatic - and the trip proves life-changing in more ways than one. For the first time, Ella sees what life outside of segregation is like, and begins to dream of a very different future.
But her happiness is shattered when she returns home to the news that her classmate has been arrested for the murder of two white girls - and nothing will ever be the same again.
A beautifully written and deeply moving story about finding and fighting for your place in the world.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241346891
ISBN-10: 0241346894
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Penguin Random House Children's UK
Colecția Puffin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241346894
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Penguin Random House Children's UK
Colecția Puffin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Karyn Parsons is perhaps best known for her role as Will Smith's ditsy cousin Hilary Banks on NBC's The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. After leaving acting behind, Karyn went on to found and produce Sweet Blackberry, an award-winning series of children's animated films, to share stories about unsung black heroes in history, featuring narration from stars such as Alfre Woodard, Queen Latifah and Chris Rock. The serie has been screened on HBO and Netflix, and is enjoyed by schools and libraries across the USA. How High The Moon is Karyn's self-authored debut middle grade novel. She lives and works in New York.
Recenzii
So
many
things
about
this
book
were
brilliant.A
beautiful,
funny,
dangerous
taleof
growing
up
in
Jazz
Age
America,How
High
The
Moonis
essential
reading,
full
of
voices
that
must
be
heard.One
of
the
best
stories
I've
read
in
a
long
while
Parson's sparkling debutgrabs us by the heartand leads us by the hand into a painful past filled with revelations, hope, and homecoming.Absolutely glorious!
Parsons is great at unfurling the pleasures of the freer northern states through biracial Ella's eyes, but alsoadept at handling the subtleties of layered storytelling.
[An] impressive debut
A talented, engaging new voice. Abrave, compassionate, and lovableheroine
As compelling asBrown Girl Dreaming, as character-driven asOne Crazy Summer, and as historically illuminating asRoll of Thunder, Hear My Cry... A riveting read, this novel masterfully presents Southern and Northern conflicts through the perspective of a no-nonsense kid who is trying to find her place in the world. Ella's realistic voice and passionate responses to injustices make her a credible, flawed, and likable character who sees the truth in front of her but often doesn't recognize it.A captivating novel that sheds new light on black childhood
InHow High the Moon, Karyn Parson brings the same verve, timing, and emotive brilliance that she brought to the screen. Equal partsmystery, historical fiction, and coming-of-age, this isa story full of warmth and light and dramathat will captivate you. That will haunt you. And that will ultimately enlighten you
A tender and compelling story about loving and belonging. Parsons masterfully takes us on a journey where the political is personal, where the most heartbreaking moments are also profound and beautiful.Ella is a character readers will care about, cry with, and cheer for.How High the Moonisa stunning debutthat promises to have readers wanting more and more from Parsons
A stirring, emotionally resonant debut,How High the Moonopens a fresh and sensitive window on a terrifying time, even as it introduces us to a lovable new heroine
Parson's sparkling debutgrabs us by the heartand leads us by the hand into a painful past filled with revelations, hope, and homecoming.Absolutely glorious!
Parsons is great at unfurling the pleasures of the freer northern states through biracial Ella's eyes, but alsoadept at handling the subtleties of layered storytelling.
[An] impressive debut
A talented, engaging new voice. Abrave, compassionate, and lovableheroine
As compelling asBrown Girl Dreaming, as character-driven asOne Crazy Summer, and as historically illuminating asRoll of Thunder, Hear My Cry... A riveting read, this novel masterfully presents Southern and Northern conflicts through the perspective of a no-nonsense kid who is trying to find her place in the world. Ella's realistic voice and passionate responses to injustices make her a credible, flawed, and likable character who sees the truth in front of her but often doesn't recognize it.A captivating novel that sheds new light on black childhood
InHow High the Moon, Karyn Parson brings the same verve, timing, and emotive brilliance that she brought to the screen. Equal partsmystery, historical fiction, and coming-of-age, this isa story full of warmth and light and dramathat will captivate you. That will haunt you. And that will ultimately enlighten you
A tender and compelling story about loving and belonging. Parsons masterfully takes us on a journey where the political is personal, where the most heartbreaking moments are also profound and beautiful.Ella is a character readers will care about, cry with, and cheer for.How High the Moonisa stunning debutthat promises to have readers wanting more and more from Parsons
A stirring, emotionally resonant debut,How High the Moonopens a fresh and sensitive window on a terrifying time, even as it introduces us to a lovable new heroine
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Eleven-year-old Ella seeks information about her father while enjoying a visit with her mother, a jazz singer, in Boston in 1944, then returns to the harsh realities of segregated, small-town South Carolina in this powerful, bittersweet debut set in the Jim Crow-era South.
Eleven-year-old Ella seeks information about her father while enjoying a visit with her mother, a jazz singer, in Boston in 1944, then returns to the harsh realities of segregated, small-town South Carolina in this powerful, bittersweet debut set in the Jim Crow-era South.