The game of Love and Death

By Martha Brockenbrough

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

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.