Keeping the night watch
About this book
A thirteen-year-old African American boy chronicles what happens to his family when his father, who temporarily left, returns home and they all must deal with their feelings of anger, hope, abandonment, and fear.
Subjects
- african americans
- african americans, fiction
- children's fiction
- children's poetry
- families
- family life
- family life, fiction
- fathers
- fathers, fiction
- fiction
- juvenile fiction
- juvenile poetry
- novel in verse
- novels in verse
- poetry
- reading level-grade 4
- reading level-grade 5
- reading level-grade 6
- reading level-grade 7
- reading level-grade 8
- stories in rhyme