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Nelson, Marilyn , Hegamin, Tonya C.

Pemba's Song

110 pp. | Scholastic | September, 2008 | Trade ISBN 978-0-545-02076-3 $16.99
(4) YA Pemba is unhappy to move from Brooklyn to a lily-white Connecticut town. Her attitude eventually thaws when she's befriended by former Black Panther/library researcher Abraham--and after she starts seeing a ghost. Pemba describes these encounters in lyrical poems (written by Nelson) and first-person narration, including some false-sounding street lingo ("Don’t get me wrong, Harriet Tubman is my homegirl").
Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz

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