Striped ice cream!

By Joan M. Lexau

Subjects: Poverty, Family life, fiction, African americans, fiction, Birthdays, fiction, Family, Birthdays, Fiction, Children's fiction, Juvenile fiction, Family life

Description: A seven-year-old Negro girl is resigned to the fact that her mother can not afford anything special for her birthday, but she does not understand why her older sisters and brother seem to turn against her--until the big day finally arrives.