Letters to Missy Violet

By Barbara Hathaway

Subjects: African Americans, African americans, fiction, Southern states, fiction, Fiction, Letters, Children's fiction, Letters, fiction, Juvenile fiction, History

Description: While her friend Missy Violet, the town midwife, is away in Florida, eleven-year-old Viney concerns herself with ailing neighbors, schoolmates, and her irrepressible cousin Charles, who feels superior because he has been to Harlem in New York City.