Keeping the night watch

By Hope Anita Smith

Subjects: Novels in verse, African Americans, Family life, fiction, African americans, fiction, Stories in rhyme, Reading Level-Grade 4, Families, Children's poetry, Reading Level-Grade 8, Fathers, fiction, Reading Level-Grade 7, Fiction, Children's fiction, Reading Level-Grade 5, Reading Level-Grade 6, Novel in verse, Juvenile fiction, Fathers, Poetry, Juvenile poetry, Family life

Description: A thirteen-year-old African American boy chronicles what happens to his family when his father, who temporarily left, returns home and they all must deal with their feelings of anger, hope, abandonment, and fear.