The Red Rose Box

by Brenda Woods

2020-11-24 07:52:40

On her tenth birthday, Leah receives a surprise gift from glamorous Aunt Olivia, Mama''s only sister, who lives in Los Angeles.  It is a red rose box.  Not many people in 1958 Louisiana have seen such a beautiful traveling case, covered wit... Read more
On her tenth birthday, Leah receives a surprise gift from glamorous Aunt Olivia, Mama''s only sister, who lives in Los Angeles.  It is a red rose box.  Not many people in 1958 Louisiana have seen such a beautiful traveling case, covered with red roses, filled with jewelry, silk bedclothes, expensive soaps...and train tickets to California.  Soon after, Leah and her sister, Ruth, find themselves in Hollywood, far away from cotton fields and Jim Crow laws.  To Leah, California feels like freedom.  But when disaster strikes back home, Leah and Ruth have to stay with Aunt Olivia permanently.  Will freedom ever feel like home? Less

Book Details

File size7.73 X 5.08 X 0.38 in
Print pages144
PublisherPenguin Young Readers Group
Publication date December 29, 2003
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780142501511

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