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Wyeth, Sharon Dennis

Something Beautiful

32 pp. | Doubleday | September, 1998 | Trade ISBN 0-385-32239-9 $$16.95
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Chris K. Soentpiet. A young African-American girl, depressed/oppressed by the ugliness in her inner-city neighborhood, searches for "something beautiful," and finds it in the small details of her community: the taste of a fried fish sandwich, a boy's moves on the basketball court, the laugh of a baby. Heartened, she scrubs some graffiti off her building and determines to keep changing the world for the better. An uplifting story illustrated with strongly realistic paintings.
Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano

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