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When Winter Robeson Came
Brenda Woods
Ages: 12+
Published: 2022
Publisher: Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin Random Huse
ISBN: 978-1-5247-4158-7
Keywords: African-Americans, race relations, 1960s, civil rights, families
On the cusp of the Watts race riots of 1965, a Black family hosts a young out-of-town cousin seeking his father, who disappeared ten years earlier. Free verse.