Tar Beach
Flight, fiction
Desire
African American girls
Caldecott Medal
Vocabulary, juvenile literature
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Cassie Louise Lightfoot, eight years old in 1939, has a dream: to be free to go wherever she wants for the rest of her life. One night, up on "tar beach" --the rooftop of her family's Harlem apartment building--her dream comes true. The stars lift her up, and she flies over the city. She claims the …
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