Sugar Town queens / Malla Nunn
- Bib ID:
- 8611626
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Nunn, Malla, author
- Description:
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- Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2021
- ©2021
- 291, 10 pages ; 20 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781760526832 (paperback)
- Summary:
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When Amandla wakes up on her fifteenth birthday, she knows it's going to be one of her mother's difficult days. Her mother has had another vision. If Amandla wears a blue sheet her mother has loosely stitched as a dress and styles her normally braided hair in a halo around her head, Amandla's father will come home. Amandla's mother, Annalisa, always speaks of her father as if he was the prince of a fairytale, but in truth he's been gone since before Amandla was born and even Annalisa's memory of him is hazy. In fact many of Annalisa's memories from before Amandla was born are hazy. It's just one of the many reasons people in Sugar Town give Annalisa and Amandla strange looks -- that and the fact her mother is white and Amandla is brown. But when Amandla finds a mysterious address in the bottom of her mother's handbag along with a large amount of cash, she decides it's finally time to get answers about her mother's life. But what she discovers will change the shape and size of her family forever.
- Notes:
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- Includes an excerpt from "When the ground is hard".
- Adolescent.
- Subject:
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- Racially mixed people -- Teen fiction
- Families -- Teen fiction. -- South Africa
- Teenage girls -- Teen fiction
- Single mothers -- Teen fiction
- Mothers and daughters -- Teen fiction
- Squatter settlements -- Teen fiction
- Friendship -- Teen fiction
- Best friends -- Teen fiction
- Family secrets -- Teen fiction
- Best friends
- Families
- Family secrets
- Friendship
- Mothers and daughters
- Poverty
- Racially mixed people
- Single mothers
- Squatter settlements
- Teenage girls
- Visions
- Racially mixed people -- Juvenile fiction
- Poor -- Juvenile fiction
- Secrecy -- Juvenile fiction
- Families -- Juvenile fiction. -- South Africa
- Teenage girls -- Juvenile fiction
- Single mothers -- Juvenile fiction
- Mothers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction
- Squatter settlements -- Juvenile fiction
- Visions -- Juvenile fiction
- Family secrets -- Juvenile fiction
- Poverty -- Teen fiction
- Visions -- Teen fiction
- South Africa -- Teen fiction
- South Africa
- South Africa -- Juvenile fiction
- AUS fiction (Australia)
- Australian
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2021
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