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Weight of Blood, The
Tiffany D. Jackson
Ages: 14+
Published: 2022
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books/HarperCollins
ISBN: 978-0-06-302914-9
Keywords: Racism, child abuse, supernatural powers, horror, bullying, religious extremism, violence, segregation, sundown towns, telekinesis, misogyny
In small-town Georgia, Maddy Washington has always been an outcast, but the bullying gets relentless when classmates find out she is Black. A Carrie retelling.