Hazel

By Julie Hearn

Subjects: Great britain, history, fiction, Secrecy, Families, Slavery, Women, fiction, Historical fiction, Social classes, Secrets, Fiction, Children's fiction, Racially mixed people, Juvenile fiction, History, Family life

Description: Thirteen-year-old Hazel leaves her comfortable, if somewhat unconventional, London home in 1913 after her father has a breakdown, and goes to live in the Caribbean on her grandparents' sugar plantation where she discovers some shocking family secrets.