Karyn Parsons

How High the Moon

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Eleven-year-old Ella seeks information about her father while enjoying a visit with her mother, a jazz singer, in Boston in 1944, then returns to the harsh realities of segregated, small-town South Carolina in this powerful, bittersweet debut set in the Jim Crow-era South.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Altersempfehlung: 8 bis 12 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 136mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 379g
• ISBN-13: 9780316484008
• ISBN-10: 0316484008
• Artikelnr.: 53302354

Autorenporträt

Karyn Parsons is best known for her role as Will Smith's cousin Hilary Banks on NBC's The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. After leaving acting behind, Karyn has gone on to found and produce Sweet Blackberry, an award-winning series of children's animated films, to share stories about unsung Black heroes in history, featuring narration from stars such as Alfre Woodard, Queen Latifah, and Chris Rock. The videos have been screened on HBO and Netflix, and enjoyed by schools and libraries across the country. She is the author of Clouds over California, Flying Free: How Bessie Coleman's Dreams Took Flight,How High the Moon, and Saving the Day. Karyn lives with her family in Providence, Rhode Island.

Rezensionen

So many things about this book were brilliant. A beautiful, funny, dangerous tale of growing up in Jazz Age America, How High The Moon is essential reading, full of voices that must be heard. One of the best stories I've read in a long while Emma Carroll, author of Letters from the Lighthouse and Secrets of a Sun King