Title: Toning the sweep
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Deserts, Cancer, Grandmothers, Family life, African Americans, Blacks, Afro-Americans, Family, Families, Grandmothers -- Fiction, Family life -- Fiction, Deserts -- Fiction, Cancer -- Fiction, African Americans -- Fiction, Coretta Scott King Award, 1000blackgirlbooks, Children's fiction, Grandparents, fiction, Family life, fiction, Deserts, fiction, African americans, fiction, Cancer, fiction