If You Come Softly

Jacqueline Woodson First published 1998

About this book

After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions.

Subjects

african americans
african americans, fiction
bereavement
children's fiction
dating (social customs), fiction
death
families
family
family life
family life, fiction
fiction
grief
high school students
interpersonal relations
interracial dating
juvenile fiction
love, fiction
new york (n.y.), fiction
private schools
race relations, fiction
reading level-grade 10
reading level-grade 11
reading level-grade 12
reading level-grade 7
reading level-grade 8
reading level-grade 9
schools
schools, fiction
teenagers
young adult fiction, diversity & multicultural
young adult fiction, romance, contemporary
young adult fiction, social themes, prejudice & racism