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Author:

Going, K. L. (Kelly L.), author.

Title:

Pieces of why / by K.L. Going.

Publisher:

Penguin Group USA

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

224 p. ;

Subject:

Gospel singers--Juvenile fiction.
Children's choirs--Juvenile fiction.
Children of prisoners--Juvenile fiction.
Traumatic neuroses--Juvenile fiction.
Fathers and daughters--Juvenile fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Juvenile fiction.
Gospel singers--Fiction.
Choirs--Fiction.
Traumatic neuroses--Fiction.
Fathers and daughters--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
New Orleans (La.)--Juvenile fiction.
New Orleans (La.)--Fiction.

Summary:

Twelve-year-old Tia lives in a white slum in New Orleans with her mother, and her whole world revolves around singing in the gospel choir with her best friend, Keisha--but when practice is interrupted by a shooting outside the church, and a baby is killed, Tia finds that she cannot sing, and she is forced to confront her feelings about her incarcerated father who killed a girl in a failed robbery years before.

ISBN:

0803734743
9780803734746

LCCN:

2014040314

Locations:

JYPB641 -- Albion Municipal Library (Albion)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

OEPC877 -- Bedford Public Library (Bedford)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

GSPC501 -- Colfax Public Library (Colfax)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

KHPB566 -- Donnellson Public Library (Donnellson)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

EBPE325 -- Estherville Public Library (Estherville)

63SX755 -- MMCRU-Remsen PreK-8 (Remsen)

YWPD162 -- Tipton Public Library (Tipton)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)

ZOPC437 -- Woodbine Carnegie Public Library (Woodbine)