Welcome to the Bank Street Children's Book Committee's (CBC) Searchable Best Books List, a tool designed to help educators, families, librarians, and others access developmentally appropriate and engaging books for young readers (ages birth - 18).
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Sugar Town Queens
Malla Nunn
Ages: 14+
Published: 2021
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons/PRH
ISBN: 978-0-525-51560-9
Keywords: Poverty, secrets, racism, people of mixed race, mothers and daughters, family life, death, grief, romance, friendship, South Africa, mental health
Living in a post-apartheid, South African shantytown, biracial Amandla, 15, has never met her White mother's relatives. Friends help her uncover family secrets and truths.