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Higginsen,
Vy and Toyna Bolden
MAMA, I
WANT TO SING
New York : Scholastic, 1992.
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ISBN 0590442023 |
| Doris
Winters is an 11 year old girl living in Harlem in the 1940's. Her life
is good and she pictures a bright future. Doris' father is the Pastor of
the Mr. Calvary Church and Doris gets to sing in the choir even though
she is so young. She dreams of being a professional singer when she grows
up. Her parents shelter her a great deal and try to keep her from hanging
with other girls in Harlem. Her life is shattered when her father dies
suddenly. She goes into a deep depression and gives up singing. Sister
Carrie convinces Doris to sing again and Doris begins to come around. Her
desire to live a normal teenage life leads to tension between Doris and
her mother. Will her mother accept Doris and her desire to be a professional
singer? |
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SUBJECTS:
African American singers -- Fiction
Singers -- Fiction
African Americans -- Fiction |
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