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Toning the Sweep

by Angela Johnson

112 pages · 1999

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. On a visit to her grandmother Ola, who is dying of cancer in her house in the desert, 14-year-old Emmie hears many stories about the past and her family history and comes to a better understanding of relatives both dead and living.

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