Begging for change

By Sharon G. Flake

Subjects: Parent and child, fiction, Juvenile fiction, Poor African-Americans, Fiction, African-American teenage girls, Homeless persons, African Americans, Inner city teenagers, Inner cities, Children's fiction, Fourteen-year-old girls, African-American father and daughter, Poor, Friendship, Homeless men, African-American mother and daughter, Stealing, African-American single parent family, Money, Fathers and daughters

Description: Teenaged Raspberry Hill tries to sort out her confused feelings of disgust, shame, and love for her homeless, drug addicted father and worries that she may have inherited his lying and stealing ways.