Silhouetted by the blue

By Traci L. Jones

Subjects: Grief, African Americans, Family problems, Family life, fiction, African americans, fiction, Middle schools, Theater, Mental Depression, Depression, mental, fiction, Theater, fiction, Schools, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Grief, fiction, Schools

Description: After the death of her mother in an automobile accident, seventh-grader Serena, who has gotten the lead in her middle school play, is left to handle the day-to-day challenges of caring for herself and her younger brother when their father cannot pull himself out of his depression.