If You Come Softly

By Jacqueline Woodson

Subjects: Grief, Death, Race relations, fiction, African Americans, Family life, fiction, African americans, fiction, Young adult fiction, romance, contemporary, Reading Level-Grade 12, Families, Dating (social customs), fiction, Reading Level-Grade 9, Family, Bereavement, Young adult fiction, diversity & multicultural, Interpersonal relations, Reading Level-Grade 8, Schools, fiction, Reading Level-Grade 7, Private schools, Fiction, Children's fiction, Reading Level-Grade 11, Love, fiction, Young adult fiction, social themes, prejudice & racism, Juvenile fiction, Reading Level-Grade 10, New york (n.y.), fiction, Schools, Interracial dating, Family life

Description: After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions.