The Shimmershine Queens
Publisher: Tandem Library
Published: October 1999
Language: eng
Format: School & Library Binding
Number of pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9780833544797
Subjects: Schools; Fiction; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction; Children: Grades 3-4; Social Issues - Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance; People & Places - United States - African-American; Afro-Americans; Prejudices
First sentence: "Seems like this elevator is always breaking down," Angie Peterson complained as she pushed open the first-floor stairwell door in the lobby of the building where she lived.