Black, white, other

By Joan Steinau Lester

Subjects: Family life, Divorce, Fiction, Great-grandmothers, Racially mixed people, Fugitive slaves, Race relations, Identity

Description: Twenty miles from Oakland, California, where fires have led to racial tension, multi-racial fifteen-year-old Nina faces the bigotry of long-time friends, her parents' divorce, and her brother's misbehavior, while learning of her great-great grandmother Sarah's escape from slavery.