Jonathon Scott Fuqua, Author . Candlewick $15.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1417-1
In Fuqua's (The Reappearance of Sam Webber) thoughtful debut novel for young readers, a white girl living in South Carolina in the '20s sparks a controversy with her article supporting racial equality. Darby wants to be a "newspaper girl&
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Jonathon Scott Fuqua, Author . Candlewick $15.99 (145p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1776-9
Fuqua's (The Reappearance of Sam Webber
) tender and poignant story takes place in a small Virginia town in 1953, as the Korean War comes to an end and tragedy looms on the horizon for one family. Carter Johnston, raised on a steady diet of...
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Jonathon Scott Fuqua, Author Bancroft Press $23.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-890862-02-2
A white 11-year-old becomes fast friends with a black school janitor and learns about racism, loss, grief, forgiveness and the landscape of Baltimore in this heartfelt but simplistic debut novel, the first work of fiction from Bancroft Press....
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Jonathon Scott Fuqua, Author, Peter Sylvada, Illustrator . Candlewick $8.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1424-9
. An 11-year-old Baltimore boy's friendship with an African-American school janitor teaches him about racism, loss, grief and forgiveness. According to PW
, the author "has a sensitive understanding of the shaky emotional terrain of...
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Jonathon Scott Fuqua, Author, Steven Parke, Illustrator , illus. by Steven Parke. Houghton $16 (72p) ISBN 978-0-618-39403-6
Fuqua, who collaborated with Parke on the graphic novel In the Shadow of EdgarAllan Poe, offers a thin tale about a friendless only child whose family is constantly uprooted. Moving into an old house in Baltimore, she spies a girl wearing an old-fash
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