The Parker inheritance /
Johnson, Varian.
The Parker inheritance / Varian Johnson. - 1st ed. - New York, NY : Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., [2018] - 331 p. ; 22 cm.
School Library Journal starred, December 2017 Horn Book Starred, March 2018 Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books starre, April 2018 Publishers Weekly, January 2018 Kirkus Starred, January 2018 Booklist, February 2018 New York Times, March 2018 Horn Book, November 2018 Library Media Connection, January 2018
Twelve-year-old Candice Miller is spending the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, in the old house that belonged to her grandmother, who died after being dismissed as city manager for having the city tennis courts dug up looking for buried treasure--but when she finds the letter that sent her grandmother on the treasure hunt, she finds herself caught up in the mystery and, with the help of her new friend and fellow book-worm, Brandon, she sets out to find the inheritance, exonerate her grandmother, and expose an injustice once committed against an African American family in Lambert.
5.9. 3-6 Follett School Solutions.
9780545946179
2017042551
African Americans--Fiction.
Buried treasure--Fiction.
Grandmothers--Fiction.
Mother-daughter relationship--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
South Carolina--Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
PZ7.J63844 / Par 2018
[Fic]
The Parker inheritance / Varian Johnson. - 1st ed. - New York, NY : Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., [2018] - 331 p. ; 22 cm.
School Library Journal starred, December 2017 Horn Book Starred, March 2018 Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books starre, April 2018 Publishers Weekly, January 2018 Kirkus Starred, January 2018 Booklist, February 2018 New York Times, March 2018 Horn Book, November 2018 Library Media Connection, January 2018
Twelve-year-old Candice Miller is spending the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, in the old house that belonged to her grandmother, who died after being dismissed as city manager for having the city tennis courts dug up looking for buried treasure--but when she finds the letter that sent her grandmother on the treasure hunt, she finds herself caught up in the mystery and, with the help of her new friend and fellow book-worm, Brandon, she sets out to find the inheritance, exonerate her grandmother, and expose an injustice once committed against an African American family in Lambert.
5.9. 3-6 Follett School Solutions.
9780545946179
2017042551
African Americans--Fiction.
Buried treasure--Fiction.
Grandmothers--Fiction.
Mother-daughter relationship--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
South Carolina--Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
PZ7.J63844 / Par 2018
[Fic]