An angel for Mariqua
By: Zetta Elliott ; afterword by Millicent L. Freeman, PhD
Publisher: Rosetta Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Brooklyn, New York?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9781478288213
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: African American girls; Juvenile fiction; Children of women prisoners; Grandmothers; Wood-carved figurines; Charms; Friendship; Fiction; Statues; Christmas
Description: As Christmas approaches, feisty, eight-year-old Marquita, who is living with her grandmother while her mother serves a jail sentence, finds comfort in a magical carved angel and a new friend.
Notes: Age 8+.