Coretta Scott King Honor winner Brenda Woods' moving, uplifting story of
a girl finally meeting the African American side of her family explores
racism and how it feels to be biracial, and celebrates families of all
kinds.
Violet is biracial, but she lives with her white mother and sister,
attends a mostly white school in a white town, and sometimes feels like
a brown leaf on a pile of snow. Now that she's eleven, she feels it's
time to learn about her African American heritage, so she seeks out her
paternal grandmother. When Violet is invited to spend two weeks with her
new Bibi (Swahili for grandmother) and learns about her lost heritage,
her confidence in herself grows and she discovers she's not a shrinking
Violet after all. From a Coretta Scott King Honor-winning author, this
is a powerful story about a young girl finding her place in the world.