Adversity

SLJ and Publishers Weekly starred reviews!

Plain City is about a fierce and vulnerable biracial 12-year-old named Buhlaire. For as long as she remembers, Buhlaire has always believed her father had died in Vietnam. In a turn events, she discovers that her father is not dead; he is actually alive and living at the outskirts of Plain City Furious with the knowledge that has been kept from her, Buhlaire, in a search for self, takes off to meet her father for the very first time..

This book is storytelling as its best. Universal themes of identity, race, family and loyalty are omnipresent. Buhlaire's tenacity and intelligence shine throughout the book, despite painful realizations of racial strife and family relationships.. A moving and cautiously hopeful coming of age narrative. As one character says, "It's exciting, life is." ( )

Not a favorite. ( )

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