Peace, Locomotion /
Woodson, Jacqueline.
Peace, Locomotion / Jacqueline Woodson. - New York, NY : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2009. - 134 p. ; 22 cm.
Through letters to his little sister, who is living in a different foster home, sixth-grader Lonnie, also known as "Locomotion," keeps a record of their lives while they are apart, describing his own foster family, including his foster brother who returns home after losing a leg in the Iraq War.
A Junior Library Guild selection
039924655X (hardcover) : $15.99 9780399246555 (hardcover) : $15.99
2008018583
African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
Brothers and sisters--Juvenile fiction.
Foster home care--Juvenile fiction.
Letters--Juvenile fiction.
Orphans--Juvenile fiction.
Peace--Juvenile fiction.
African American boys--Fiction.
Children's stories, African American.
Realistic fiction.
Twelve-year-old boys--Fiction.
Children's stories.
Domestic fiction.
Peace, Locomotion / Jacqueline Woodson. - New York, NY : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2009. - 134 p. ; 22 cm.
Through letters to his little sister, who is living in a different foster home, sixth-grader Lonnie, also known as "Locomotion," keeps a record of their lives while they are apart, describing his own foster family, including his foster brother who returns home after losing a leg in the Iraq War.
A Junior Library Guild selection
039924655X (hardcover) : $15.99 9780399246555 (hardcover) : $15.99
2008018583
African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
Brothers and sisters--Juvenile fiction.
Foster home care--Juvenile fiction.
Letters--Juvenile fiction.
Orphans--Juvenile fiction.
Peace--Juvenile fiction.
African American boys--Fiction.
Children's stories, African American.
Realistic fiction.
Twelve-year-old boys--Fiction.
Children's stories.
Domestic fiction.