River, Cross My Heart

Name: River, Cross My Heart
Author: Breena Clarke
ISBN: 9780606190305

by Breena Clarke

1999 · adult

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Set in 1 place · 1 primary

Sense of Place

5/5

Description · Open Library (CC0)

The impact of a child's drowning on a black family in 1925 Washington, especially on the 12-year-old sister who was baby-sitting the girl. Told against the background of the lot of African Americans at the time.

Set in

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Georgetown, Washington, D.C. · United States
1920s Black community
★ primary

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