num_pages: 224
description: Terrified by the frightening world that surrounds her, from her family and school to the voodoo priestess who holds her mother in thrall, Ellen, an eleven-year-old African-American girl growing up in Detroit in the 1960s, desperately searches for a safe refuge and finds an ally in a neighbor who struggles to restore her trust in people. A first novel. Reprint.
language: English
title: The Root Worker
titlecomplete: The Root Worker
genres: Fiction, African American
ratings_count: 68
publisher: Penguin Books