The Perfect Place

Description:

Twelve-year-old Treasure Daniels and her younger sister must move in with Great-aunt Grace until their mother sorts herself out, but life in Black Lake, Virginia, where segregation lingers, is hard and Grace is a nightmare--at least on the surface.

subjects: Moving,  Family-life,  Segregation,  Home,  Great Aunts,  African Americans,  Families,  Juvenile fiction,  Family life,  Fiction,  Great-aunts,  Household Moving,  Children's fiction,  Sisters, fiction,  Mothers and daughters, fiction,  Virginia, fiction,  Home, fiction,  Children's,  African American,  Teenage personal & social issues: Family issues,  Teenage personal & social issues: Racism & multiculturalism,  Children's & Teenage Fiction,  Age level unknown,  Family Stories,  Family life, fiction,  African americans, fiction,  Moving, household, fiction

Places: Virginia