The Window
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Publication Year
1997
ISBN
9780786803019
Pages
106 pages
Genre
realism
Format
chapter book
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
When ten-year-old Rayona's Native American mother enters a treatment facility, her estranged father, a Black man, finally introduces her to his side of the family, who are not at all what she expected.
Grade Level
6-8
Lexile Measure
860L
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Racial Diversity; Disability and Health; Foster care; Single parent; Kinship care; Biracial; Addiction; foster child; foster homes; single father; grandparents raising grandchild; aunt raising niece; two races; biracial child; alcoholism; rehabilitation
Main Character
female child
Race/Ethnicities
Black (African American) / Native American / White (Irish)
Family Formation
aunt, grandmother, and great-grandmother
Awards
Adventuring with Books: A Booklist for PreK-Grade 6, 12th Edition, 1999
Books in the Middle: Outstanding Books, 1997
Children's Catalog, Eighteenth Edition, 2001
Horn Book Fanfare, 1997
Middle And Junior High School Library Catalog, Eighth Edition, 2000
Not Just for Children Anymore, 1999
Not Just for Children Anymore, 2001
Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts, 1998
Read Alouds Too-Good-To-Miss, 1998
Special Interest Group of the International Reading Association, 1998
YALSA Best Books for Young Adults, 1998
The de Grummond Children's Literature Collection
Keywords
racially mixed people; families; parent and child; Kentucky; rehab
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Dorris, Michael, "The Window" (1997). Diverse Families. 802.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/802