Robin Farmer
Author
Publisher
SparkPress, a BookSparks imprint
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Philly native Roberta Forest is a precocious rebel with the soul of a poet. The thirteen-year-old is young, gifted, black, and Catholic--although shes uncertain about the Catholic part after she calls Thomas Jefferson a hypocrite for enslaving people and her nun responds with a racist insult. Their ensuing fight makes Roberta question God and the important adults in her life, all of whom seem to see truth as gray when Roberta believes its black or...