Title No laughter here / Rita Williams-Garcia.

Publication Info.	New York : HarperCollins : Amistad, [2004]
	©2004

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
South Windsor Public Library - Young Adult	JYA WILLIAMS-GARCIA	Check Shelf

Edition	First edition.
Description	133 pages ; 22 cm
Summary	In Queens, New York, ten-year-old Akilah is determined to find out why her closest friend, Victoria, is silent and withdrawn after returning from a trip to her homeland, Nigeria.
Audience	7 & up.
Awards	A Junior Library Guild selection.
Study Program	Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning UG 4.4 4.0
	Accelerated Reader AR UG 4.4 4.0 74172.
Subject	Friendship -- Fiction.
	Schools -- Fiction.
	Coming of age -- Fiction.
	Female circumcision -- Fiction.
	Nigerian Americans -- Fiction.
	African Americans -- Fiction.
	Friendship -- Juvenile fiction.
	Schools -- Juvenile fiction.
	Female genital mutilation -- Juvenile fiction.
	Nigerian Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
	African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
	Queens (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
	Queens (New York, N.Y.) -- Juvenile fiction.
Genre/Form	Bildungsromans.
ISBN	0688162479
	0688162487 library binding $16.89

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