| The Friends Contributor(s): Guy, Rosa (Author) |
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ISBN: 0440226678 ISBN-13: 9780440226673 Publisher: Laurel Leaf Library OUR PRICE: $6.29 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: December 1995 Annotation: Phyllisia eventually recognizes that her own selfish pride rather than her mother's death and her father's tyrannical behavior created the gulf between her and her best friend. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | People & Places - United States - African American - Young Adult Fiction | Coming Of Age - Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Friendship |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 730 |
| Physical Information: 0.54" H x 4.34" W x 6.84" (0.21 lbs) 192 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Friendship |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 25957 Reading Level: 5.0 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 7.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A powerful, award-winning novel about friendship. Phyllisia Cathy--She is fourteen. Her problems seem overwhelming: New York, after life on her sunlit West Indies island, is cold, cruel and filthy. She is insulted daily and is beaten up by classmates. What Phyllisia needs, God not being interested, is a friend. Edith Jackson--She is fifteen. Her clothes are unpressed, her stockings bagging with big holes. Her knowledge of school is zero. She has no parents, she swears and she steals. But she is kind and offers her friendship and protection to Phyllisia. "And so begins the struggle that is the heart of this very important book: the fight to gain perception of one's own real character; the grim struggle for self-knowledge."--Alice Walker, The New York Times |