Unstoppable Octobia May

Title:

Author:

Flake, Sharon, author.

ISBN:

9780545609609

9780545609623

9780545609616

Edition:

First edition.

Physical Description:

276 pages ; 22cm

Summary:

In 1953 ten-year-old Octobia May lives in her Aunt's boarding house in the South, surrounded by an African American community which has its own secrets and internal racism, and spends her days wondering if Mr. Davenport in room 204 is really a vampire--or something else entirely.

Lexile:

550L

Accelerated Reader:

Accelerated Reader AR MG 3.8 7.0 171064.

Subject Term:

African American girls -- Juvenile fiction.

African Americans -- Southern States -- Juvenile fiction.

Boardinghouses -- Southern States -- Juvenile fiction.

Racism -- Juvenile fiction.

Secrecy -- Juvenile fiction.

Friendship -- Juvenile fiction.

African Americans -- Fiction.