Begging for change

By Sharon G. Flake

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

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.