It All Comes Down to This
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication Year
2017
ISBN
9780544839571
Pages
368 pages
Genre
historical
Format
novel
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
Perfect for fans of Glory Be, this charming middle grade coming-of-age novel set in Los Angeles in the summer of 1965 is narrated by Sophie, a precocious, sheltered twelve-year-old. But when her family becomes the first African Americans to move into their upper middle-class neighborhood and riots erupt in nearby Watts, she learns that life-and her own place in it-is a lot more complicated than it had seemed.
Grade Level
3-5; 6-8
Diversity Topics
Racial Diversity; Race discrimination; racism; prejudice
Main Character
girl
Race/Ethnicities
African American
Family Formation
mother and father
Keywords
family life; riots; families; race relations; Los Angeles; school; period
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
English, Karen, "It All Comes Down to This" (2017). Diverse Families. 874.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/874