Toning the sweep

Resource Information

The work Toning the sweep represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Internet Archive - Open Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Toning the sweep

Statement of responsibility

Angela Johnson

Creator

• Johnson, Angela, 1961-

Subject

• Deserts -- Fiction
• African Americans -- Juvenile fiction
• Blacks -- Fiction
• Families -- Juvenile fiction
• African Americans -- Fiction
• Cancer -- Juvenile fiction
• Grandmothers -- Juvenile fiction
• Families -- Fiction
• Grandmothers -- Fiction
• Family life -- Fiction
• Cancer -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Juvenile fiction

Language

eng

Summary

On a visit to her grandmother Ola, who is dying of cancer in her house in the desert, fourteen-year-old Emmie hears many stories about the past and her family history and comes to a better understanding of relatives both dead and living. The videotaping is Ola's idea--Ola, Emmie's grandma who lives in the California desert is dying of cancer. Emmie and her mother have come to "the dry" to pack up Ola's house and take her back to a hospital in Cleveland. As Emmie starts photographing Ola's friends, she learns about her family history and their heritage. As Ola is sped off to heaven, life below is revered and celebrated

Awards note

Coretta Scott King Award, author, 1994.

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

Interest level

UG

LC call number

• PZ7.J629
• PS3560.O37129

LC item number

• To 1993
• T66 1993

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Reading level

4.7

Study program name

Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning

Target audience

juvenile