{"id":57770,"date":"2019-03-14T17:46:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T17:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57770"},"modified":"2019-03-14T17:46:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T17:46:15","slug":"how-high-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57770","title":{"rendered":"How High The Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"

How High The Moon<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers<\/a>
\n2019-03-05
\n320 pages
\nHardcover ISBN: 9780316484008
\nEbook ISBN: 9780316484022<\/p>\n

Karyn Parsons<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\"How<\/a><\/p>\n

To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em><\/a> meets One Crazy Summer<\/em><\/a> in this powerful, bittersweet debut about one girl\u2019s journey to reconnect with her mother and learn the truth about her father in the tumultuous times of the Jim Crow<\/a> South.<\/p>\n

In the small town of Alcolu, South Carolina<\/a>, in 1944, 12-year-old Ella spends her days fishing and running around with her best friend Henry and cousin Myrna. But life is not always so sunny for Ella, who gets bullied for her light skin tone, and whose mother is away pursuing a jazz singer dream in Boston<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So Ella is ecstatic when her mother invites her to visit for Christmas. Little does she expect the truths she will discover about her mother, the father she never knew and her family\u2019s most unlikely history.<\/p>\n

And after a life-changing month, she returns South and is shocked by the news that her schoolmate George has been arrested for the murder of two local white girls.<\/p>\n

Bittersweet and eye-opening, How High the Moon<\/em> is a timeless novel about a girl finding herself in a world all but determined to hold her down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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