

An edition of If You Come Softly (1998)
By Jacqueline Woodson
Publish Date
1998
Publisher
Penguin,Puffin Books,Puffin
Language
eng
Pages
181
Description:
After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions.
subjects: African Americans, Family life, Fiction, Interracial dating, Schools, Juvenile fiction, Family, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Children's fiction, Race relations, fiction, Family life, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Schools, fiction, African americans, fiction, Dating (social customs), fiction, Families, Death, Grief, Interpersonal relations, Love, fiction, Private schools, Bereavement, Young adult fiction, romance, contemporary, Young adult fiction, social themes, prejudice & racism, Young adult fiction, diversity & multicultural, Teenagers, High school students
People: Jeremiah Roselind, Ellie
Places: New York, New York (N.Y.), New York (State)