Title: Silhouetted by the blue
Description: After the death of her mother in an automobile accident, seventh-grader Serena, who has gotten the lead in her middle school play, is left to handle the day-to-day challenges of caring for herself and her younger brother when their father cannot pull himself out of his depression.
Subjects: Theater, Middle schools, Mental Depression, Family problems, Fiction, Grief, Schools, African Americans, Children's fiction, Family life, fiction, Depression, mental, fiction, Grief, fiction, Theater, fiction, Schools, fiction, African americans, fiction