The Red Rose Box
Narrator: Asmeret Ghebremichael
Imprint: Listening Library
Grades: Grades 3-7
Ages: 8-12 years
Release Date: March 26, 2019
3 Hours and 27 Minutes
List Price: $34
ISBN: 9780525628927
Categories:
Juvenile Fiction - Historical - United States - 20th Century, Juvenile Fiction - People & Places - United States - African American, Juvenile Fiction - Family - General (See Also Headings Under Social Themes)
On her tenth birthday, Leah receives a surprise gift from glamorous Aunt Olivia, Mama's only sister, who lives in Los Angeles. It is a red rose box. Not many people in 1958 Louisiana have seen such a beautiful traveling case, covered with red roses, filled with jewelry, silk bedclothes, expensive soaps...and train tickets to California. Soon after, Leah and her sister, Ruth, find themselves in Hollywood, far away from cotton fields and Jim Crow laws. To Leah, California feels like freedom. But when disaster strikes back home, Leah and Ruth have to stay with Aunt Olivia permanently. Will freedom ever feel like home?
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