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If you come softly

Author: Jacqueline Woodson
Publisher: New York : Putnam's, 1998.
Edition/Format:  Print book : Fiction : Secondary (senior high) school : EnglishView all editions and formats
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After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions.
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Genre/Form: Young adult works
Romance fiction
Fiction
Juvenile works
Young adult fiction
Juvenile fiction
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Woodson, Jacqueline.
If you come softly.
New York : Putnam's, 1998
(OCoLC)607196464
Material Type: Fiction, Secondary (senior high) school, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Jacqueline Woodson
ISBN: 0399231129 9780399231124 9780142415221 0142415227 0142406015 9780142406014
OCLC Number: 37755085
Description: 181 pages ; 22 cm
Responsibility: Jacqueline Woodson.
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After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions.

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