The Stars And The Blackness Between Them

ISBN-10: 0525555498
ISBN-13: 9780525555490
Author: Petrus, Junauda
Interest Level: 9-12
Publisher: Penguin Random House

Publication Date: June 2020

Copyright: 2019

Page Count: 320

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Interest Level

Grades 9-12

Reading Level

Lexile: 890L
Accelerated Reader Level: 5.8
Accelerated Reader Points: 13.0

BISAC Subjects

YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Death & Dying *

YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Romance / LGBT *

Description
Told in two distinct and irresistible voices, Junauda Petrus's bold and lyrical debut is the story of two black girls from very different backgrounds finding love and happiness in a world that seems determined to deny them both. Trinidad. Sixteen-year-old Audre is despondent, having just found out she's going to be sent to live in America with her father because her strictly religious mother caught her with her secret girlfriend, the pastor's daughter. Audre's grandmother Queenie (a former dancer who drives a white convertible Cadillac and who has a few secrets of her own) tries to reassure her granddaughter that she won't lose her roots, not even in some place called Minneapolis. "America have dey spirits too, believe me," she tells Audre. Minneapolis. Sixteen-year-old Mabel is lying on her bed, staring at the ceiling and trying to figure out why she feels the way she feels--about her ex Terrell, about her girl Jada and that moment they had in the woods, and about the vague feeling of illness that's plagued her all summer. Mabel
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