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Author Petrus, Junauda, author.

Title The stars and the blackness between them / Junauda Petrus.

Publication Info. New York : Dutton Books for Young Readers, 2019.
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 Avon Free Public Library - Teen  TEEN PETRUS, J.    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  TEEN PETRUS, J.    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Teen  TEEN PETRUS, J.    Storage
 Bristol, Main Library - Young Adult  YA PETRUS    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Young Adult  YA PETRUS    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Teen  YF PETRUS    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Teen  TEEN FICTION PETRUS    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Young Adult  YA F PETRUS    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Young Adult  YA F PETRUS    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Teen Department  TEEN FIC PETR    Check Shelf

Description 308 pages ; 22 cm
Summary Trinidad. Audre is being sent to live in America with her father because her strictly religious mother caught her with her secret girlfriend, the pastor's daughter. Her grandmother Queenie tries to reassure her granddaughter that she won't lose her roots. Minneapolis. Mabel is trying to figure out why she feels the way she feels-- about her ex Terrell, about her girl Jada and that moment they had in the woods. When Audre and her father come for dinner, Mabel falls hard for Audre and is determined to take care of her as she tries to navigate an American high school. But when test results reveal why Mabel has been feeling low-key sick all summer, it's Audre who is caring for Mabel as they face face a deeply uncertain future.--adapted from jacket.
Subject African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
Black people -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Trinidad -- Juvenile fiction.
Lesbians -- Juvenile fiction.
Trinidad -- Juvenile fiction.
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
Lesbian fiction.
Novels.
ISBN 9780525555483 (hardback)
052555548X (hardback)
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