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Onyx Storm · Yarros
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Life Is Funny
E. R. Frank
2016 · Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Interpersonal relationsFamily problemsCity and town lifeFictionChildren's fiction
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Why does Gingerbread always have a smile on his face? Because life is funny, he tells Keisha. But for her and almost everyone else in her Brooklyn neighborhood there doesn t seem to be much to laugh about. China, Ebony, and Grace are best friends, but Grace s mother isn t crazy about her being friends with two girls who aren t white, and each cut Ebony makes on her wrist seems to drive them even further apart. Just across the schoolyard there s Eric who has to raise his younger brother Mickey, even though no one …
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