Goldie Vance, Volume Four
Illustrator
Elle Power
Publisher
BOOM! Box
Publication Year
2018
ISBN
9781684151400
Pages
112 pages
Genre
historical
Format
graphic novel
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
Sixteen-year-old Marigold “Goldie” Vance has an insatiable curiosity and dreams of one day becoming a detective. Luckily for Goldie, with the St. Pascal Rockin’ the Beach Music Festival coming to town, there’s plenty of inexplicable shenanigans keeping her gumshoe brain busy, from mysterious power outages, to missing musicians, to Russian spies hiding in the shadows.
Grade Level
3-5; 6-8
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Racial Diversity; LGBTQ (Gender and Sexuality); Divorce; Single parent; Biracial; Interracial; Gay/Lesbian; divorced parent; co-parenting; single father; biracial teenager; interracial parents; lesbian teenager
Main Character
female teenager
Race/Ethnicities
Black / White
Family Formation
divorced mother and father
LGBTQ+
lesbian female
Awards
Cybils Awards, 2018, Nominee, Elementary and Middle Grade (Graphic Novels)
Rainbow List, 2019 Graphic Novels
Keywords
hotel; resort; detective; Florida; music festival; power outages; musicians; missing persons; spies
Diversity Impact
indirect
STARS Citation
Larson, Hope and Ball, Jackie, "Goldie Vance, Volume Four" (2018). Diverse Families. 1990.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/1990