Title
The Rope Walk: A Novel
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pages
321 pages
Publication Year
2007
ISBN
9780375424632
Genre
realism
Topic
Racial Diversity; Family Relationships; Biracial; Single parent; mixed race; single father
Annotation
At her tenth birthday party, Alice, a motherless young girl protected by her family, encounters two people that change her life--Theo, a biracial boy from New York City, and Kenneth, an artist suffering from the ravages of AIDS.
Grade Level
9-12
Family Formation
intergenerational
Main Character
girl
Diversity Impact
indirect
Race/Ethnicities
African American / White
Keywords
AIDS (Disease); intergenerational relations; friendship in girls
Item Type
Fiction
Format
novel
STARS Citation
Brown, Carrie, "The Rope Walk: A Novel" (2007). DIVerse Families. 207.
http://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/207