City Girls Travel Writing Venita Blackburn’s debut novel

Venita Blackburn’s debut novel

To his surprise

a woman who cofounded the NAACP

and must find entertaining ways to make race an object of national conversation

but she doesn’t really know them

City Girls Travel Writing Venita Blackburn’s debut novelReaders of Lucky Broken Girl, Hurricane Child, and The House on Mango Street, will love this debut middle grade novel about finding sanctuary with friends who understand the enormous changes life can throw at you when youre 11. What Elisa, Lucia, and Alice seeand judgeof each other from the outside is drastically different from how each girl feels inside. They attend the same classes in the same New York City middle school, but no one knows that Elisa