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Split the sky
Arnold, Marie2025
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Fifteen-year-old Lala Russell is doing a bad job at being a Black girl. She has social justice fatigue, and she doesn't want to join the Black Alliance Club at her school (even though she agrees with them). A gifted cellist, she's focused on leaving her small town and accomplishing her goals and dreams. But Lala has also inherited another gift, her grandmother Sadie's gift of foresight. She has visions of the future - and they always come true. In Davey, the Texas sundown town she lives in, there is growing tension, as a Black organisation attempts to diversify the nearly all-white part of town. Amidst violent protests, Lala has a vision. In it, a Black teenage boy is shot in the chest by a white homeowner. Now Lala has a mission: find the boy and save him. But Grandma Sadie has a vision too. After the boy's murder, a wave of protests breaks out.
Main title:
Split the sky / Marie Arnold.
Author:
Arnold, Marie, author
Imprint:
New York : Little, Brown Young Readers, 2025.
Collation:
304 pages ; 21 cm
Audience:
Adolescent.
ISBN:
9780316582872 (hbk)
Dewey class:
813.6
LC class:
PZ7.1.A7632
Language:
English
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BRN:
4255096
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