The game of Love and Death

By Martha Brockenbrough

Subjects: Death, Race relations, fiction, African Americans, Boys, fiction, African americans, fiction, Teenage boys, Seattle (wash.), fiction, Girls, fiction, Love, African American teenage girls, Fiction, Children's fiction, Man-woman relationships, Juvenile fiction, History, Race relations

Description: In Seattle in 1937 two seventeen-year-olds, Henry, who is white, and Flora, who is African-American, become the unwitting pawns in a game played by two immortal figures, Love and Death, where they must choose each other at the end, or one of them will die.