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Genesis begins again / Alicia D. Williams. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : A Caitlyn Dlouhy Book, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [(c)2019.Edition: First editionDescription: 364 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Audience:
  • Age level: Children
  • Age level: Preteens
  • Educational level group: Fourth grade students
  • Educational level group: Fifth grade students
  • Educational level group: Sixth grade students
  • Educational level group: Seventh grade students
  • Educational level group: Eighth grade students
  • Educational level group: Middle school students
  • Educational level group: School children
ISBN:
  • 9781481465809
  • 1481465805
  • 9781481465816
  • 1481465813
  • 9781725494282
  • 1725494280
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PZ7.1.W555 .G464 2019
  • PS3623.W555 G464. 2019
  • PZ7.1.W5456.W721.G464 2019
Available additional physical forms:
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Contents:
Chapters 1-33 (untitled)
Awards:
  • Coretta Scott King John Steptoe Award for New Talent (Author) Award, 2020
  • Newbery Honor Book, 2020
  • William C. Morris Prize Finalist, 2020
Summary: This deeply sensitive and powerful debut novel tells the story of a thirteen-year-old who must overcome internalized racism and a verbally abusive family to finally learn to love herself. There are ninety-six things Genesis hates about herself. She knows the exact number because she keeps a list. Like #95: Because her skin is so dark, people call her charcoal and eggplantSummary: Thirteen-year-old Genesis tries again and again to lighten her black skin, thinking it is the root of her family's troubles, before discovering reasons to love herself as is.
Item type: Juvenile Book (10-day checkout)
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Chapters 1-33 (untitled)

This deeply sensitive and powerful debut novel tells the story of a thirteen-year-old who must overcome internalized racism and a verbally abusive family to finally learn to love herself. There are ninety-six things Genesis hates about herself. She knows the exact number because she keeps a list. Like #95: Because her skin is so dark, people call her charcoal and eggplant

Thirteen-year-old Genesis tries again and again to lighten her black skin, thinking it is the root of her family's troubles, before discovering reasons to love herself as is.

Ages 9-13.

670L lexile

Sentence length: 2 (easy) Word frequency: 1 (very easy) Lexile.

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MG 4.5 11.0.

Middle grade 4.5 11.0 199648. fsmlib

COPYRIGHT NOT covered - Click this link to request copyright permission:

Coretta Scott King John Steptoe Award for New Talent (Author) Award, 2020

Newbery Honor Book, 2020

William C. Morris Prize Finalist, 2020

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