River, Cross My Heart

Description:

The impact of a child's drowning on a black family in 1925 Washington, especially on the 12-year-old sister who was baby-sitting the girl. Told against the background of the lot of African Americans at the time.

subjects: Afro-Americans,  Fiction,  African Americans,  Fiction, historical,  African americans, fiction,  Washington (d.c.), fiction,  Fiction, historical, general,  African American families,  Afro-American families,  Large type books,  Drowning

Places: Washington (D.C.),  Georgetown (Washington, D.C.)