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: Deserts, Cancer, Juvenile fiction, Family life, Grandmothers, Fiction, Family, African Americans, Families, Children's fiction, Deserts, fiction, Cancer, fiction, African americans, fiction, Grandparents, fiction, Family life, fiction