num_pages: 256
description: Although devastated when she is asked to leave an exclusive Connecticut ballet school, Mina Smiths finds solace in her friendship with Tamer Shipp, the summer minister, and learns about his own difficult adolescence, Harlem ministry, and family life.
language: English
title: Come a Stranger
titlecomplete: Come a Stranger (Tillerman Cycle, #5)
genres: Middle Grade, Realistic Fiction, Coming Of Age, Childrens, Young Adult, Race, Teen, Classics, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 2089
series: Tillerman Cycle
awards: awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award, awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Judy Lopez Memorial Award for Children's Literature
publisher: Simon Pulse