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K. L. Going
K. L. Going writes stories that speak to the experience of growing up. Her books, such as "No Such Thing as the Real World" and "Big Kids," often feature young
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Twelve-year-old Tia lives in a white slum in New Orleans with her mother, and her whole world revolves around singing in the gospel choir with her best friend, Keisha--but when practice is interrupted by a shooting outside the church, and a baby is killed, Tia finds that she cannot sing, and she is forced to confront her feelings about her incarcerated father who killed a girl in a failed robbery years before.
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TiaProtagonist
KeishaSupporting
Tia's motherSupporting
Tia's fatherSupporting