Toning The Sweep (Point)

By Angela Johnson

Subjects: Grandmothers, African Americans, Family, Deserts, Cancer, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Family life

Description: Angela Johnson's Coretta Scott King Award winning novel that traces three generations of African American women as they learn one another's truths. Three generations of African American women, each holding on to a separate truth. Their story -- encompassing racism and murder as well as the family commonplaces that make a life -- is one that readers will never forget.