CONTENT NOTIFICATIONS
Discrimination: Racial Insensitivity/Racism,Discrimination: Reference/Discussion,Violence: Mild Violence,Violence: Strong Violence
Betty Before X
By Ilyasah Shabazz, Renée Watson
Edition
CSMCL Best Books - 2018
Kirkus Best Books, Middle-Grade - 2018
NYPL Best Books for Kids - 2018
By Ilyasah Shabazz, Renée Watson
Hardcover edition
Publisher Macmillan Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux ISBN9780374306106
Awards and Honors CCBC Choices 2019 Choice: Fiction for ChildrenCSMCL Best Books - 2018
Kirkus Best Books, Middle-Grade - 2018
NYPL Best Books for Kids - 2018
Betty Before X
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SKU
9780374306106J
Detroit, 1945: eleven-year-old Betty's house doesn't quite feel like home. She believes her mother loves her, but she can't shake the feeling that her mother doesn't want her. Photograph of Betty Shabazz. Author’s note. Note about Detroit in the 1940s. Note about Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Information about the main characters in the book. Time line.
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