When the black girl sings
By: Bil Wright
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781416939955
Subjects: Divorce; Juvenile fiction; Fiction; African Americans; Identity; Interracial adoption; Singing; Identity (Philosophical concept)
Description: Adopted by white parents and sent to an exclusive Connecticut girls' school where she is the only black student, fourteen-year-old Lahni Schuler feels like an outcast, particularly when her parents separate, but after attending a local church where she hears gospel music for the first time, she finds her voice.