The middle step
By: Denise Pattiz Bogard
Edition: 1st High Hill ed.
Publisher: High Hill Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: [Missouri]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9781606530979
Subjects: Foster mothers; Fiction; African American teenage girls; Poverty; Race relations; Social conditions
Description: "The Middle Step tells the story of a middle-aged white suburban woman who impulsively accepts a job to be a foster mother to four at-risk teenage girls, who have been pulled from their homes. Almost immediately, Lisa Harris discovers how little she knows about urban poverty and living with children of a different race, religion, culture and background. Doggedly Lisa stays on, struggling to create a 'family' with girls who have known only trouble and sadness in their lives."--Amazon.com.
Notes: "A novel"--Cover.

"A powerful new novel set in St. Louis that explores the intersection of race, poverty, and family"--Cover.