num_pages: 176
description: Motown lives in a burned-out building one floor above the rats, searching out jobs every day, working his muscles every night, keeping strong, surviving. Didi lives in her cool dream bubble, untouched by the Harlem heat that beats down on her brother until only drugs can soothe him. Didi escapes, without needles, in her tidy plans and stainless visions, etchings of ivycovered colleges where her true life will begin. Didi can survive inside her own safe mind, until Motown steps into her real world and makes it bearable. Together they can stand the often brutal present. What about the future?
language: English
title: Motown and Didi
titlecomplete: Motown and Didi
genres: Young Adult, Fiction, Romance, African American
ratings_count: 122
awards: awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Coretta Scott King Book Award
category: Author, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Margaret A. Edwards Award
publisher: Laurel Leaf