The house you pass on the way

Description:

Thirteen-year-old Staggerlee used to be called Evangeline, but she took on a fiercer name. She's always been different--set apart by the tragic deaths of her grandparents in an anti-civil rights bombing, by her parents' interracial marriage, and by her family's retreat from the world. This summer she has a new reason to feel set apart--her confused longing for her friend Hazel. When cousin Trout comes to stay, she gives Staggerlee a first glimpse of her possible future selves and the world beyond childhood.

subjects: African Americans,  Cousins,  Fiction,  Homosexuality,  Identity,  Interracial marriage,  Juvenile fiction,  Lesbians,  Racially mixed people,  Large type books,  LGBTQ young adult,  Lambda Literary Awards,  Lambda Literary Award Winner,  Children's fiction,  Racially mixed people, fiction,  Interracial marriage, fiction,  African americans, fiction,  Homosexuality, fiction,  Family, fiction,  Southern states, fiction,  Adventure and adventurers, fiction,  Family life, fiction