Silhouetted by the blue

Description:

After the death of her mother in an automobile accident, seventh-grader Serena, who has gotten the lead in her middle school play, is left to handle the day-to-day challenges of caring for herself and her younger brother when their father cannot pull himself out of his depression.

subjects: Theater,  Middle schools,  Mental Depression,  Family problems,  Fiction,  Grief,  Schools,  African Americans,  Children's fiction,  Family life, fiction,  Depression, mental, fiction,  Grief, fiction,  Theater, fiction,  Schools, fiction,  African americans, fiction