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Holt, Kimberly Willis

Mister and Me

68 pp. | Putnam | September, 1998 | Trade ISBN 0-399-23215-X $$13.99
(2) 4-6 Illustrated by Leonard Jenkins. There's no reason eleven-year-old Jolene shouldn't like Leroy Redfield, except that he takes Momma dancing on Friday nights. Jolene, like the reader, senses the inevitable and deals with it the way any headstrong girl still hurting from the loss of her own father would. Despite its predictability, this down-to-earth story of an African-American family living in a 1940s Louisiana milltown unfolds at a steady pace.
Reviewer: Mary Burkey | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 1998

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