Title: Keeping the night watch
Description: A thirteen-year-old African American boy chronicles what happens to his family when his father, who temporarily left, returns home and they all must deal with their feelings of anger, hope, abandonment, and fear.
Subjects: African Americans, Family life, Fathers, Fiction, Novels in verse, Families, Juvenile poetry, Novel in verse, Reading Level-Grade 5, Reading Level-Grade 4, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 6, Reading Level-Grade 8, Children's fiction, Stories in rhyme, Family life, fiction, Fathers, fiction, African americans, fiction, Poetry, Children's poetry, Juvenile fiction