Toning the sweep
By: Angela Johnson.
Publisher: Orchard Books; Scholastic; Orchard Books (NY)
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 103
Subjects: Grandmothers -- Fiction; Family life -- Fiction; Deserts -- Fiction; Cancer -- Fiction; African Americans -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: On a visit to her grandmother Ola, who is dying of cancer in her house in the desert, fourteen-year-old Emmie hears many stories about the past and her family history and comes to a better understanding of relatives both dead and living.
Notes: "A Richard Jackson book"--Half title p.