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only to be startled by the discovery of a long-lost sister who puts into question everything she thought she knew

Juliet learns what it means to come out--to the world

each of whom takes on a five-year period of that four-hundred-year span

The recipient of a scholarship designed to increase black student enrollment

And that’s before her boss at the local news station starts getting complaints from viewers about Tabitha’s natural hair

Sold Cover:Paperback only to be startled byThe powerful, poignant, bestselling National Book Award finalist gives voice to a young girl robbed of her childhood yet determined to find the strength to triumph. Lakshmi is a thirteen year old girl who lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal. Though desperately poor, her life is full of simple pleasures, like playing hopscotch with her best friend from school, and having her mother brush her hair by the light of an oil lamp. But