![]() ![]() I couldn't figure out why it was mentioned at all. It didn't play a part in the story in any way. There was mention several times about black churches in around America being burned. ![]() If the characters had all been white, it could have been exactly the same tale. Although Marley and her family are black, there doesn't seem to be anything at all about the black experience in the book. Side note: I did find it odd that it won the Coretta Scott King award. She has a difficult time coming to terms with this new reality.I loved this short little book. And her parents are actually her aunt and uncle. ![]() He seems to just travel around the country with his dog, Boy, as a semi-vagrant.But Marley's whole world is shaken to it's core when she learns that Uncle Jack is not her uncle, but her father. Marley's other important person in her life is Uncle Jack, who she's never met, but with whom she's corresponded by mail for many years. ![]() Her two good friends are Shoogy Maple, a rebellious teenager in a seemingly perfect family, and Bobby, a young man not a whole lot older than herself, who is raising a daughter on his own. Marley is a 14-year-old girl who lives with her parents and brother in the small town of Heaven, Ohio. ![]()
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