The house you pass on the way

By Jacqueline Woodson

Subjects: African Americans, African americans, fiction, Interracial marriage, fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Homosexuality, fiction, Large type books, Cousins, Identity, Lambda Literary Awards, Interracial marriage, LGBTQ young adult, Lambda Literary Award Winner, Southern states, fiction, Racially mixed people, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Homosexuality, Racially mixed people, Juvenile fiction, Family, fiction, Lesbians

Description: Thirteen-year-old Staggerlee used to be called Evangeline, but she took on a fiercer name. She's always been different--set apart by the tragic deaths of her grandparents in an anti-civil rights bombing, by her parents' interracial marriage, and by her family's retreat from the world. This summer she has a new reason to feel set apart--her confused longing for her friend Hazel. When cousin Trout comes to stay, she gives Staggerlee a first glimpse of her possible future selves and the world beyond childhood.