The window

Resource Information

The work The window represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Coweta Public Library System. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Label

The window

Statement of responsibility

Michael Dorris

Creator

• trueDorris, Michael

Subject

• trueFamily relationships
• trueKentucky
• trueMultiracial girls
• trueNorth American people
• Parent and child -- Fiction
• Racially mixed people -- Fiction
• trueTaylor, Rayona (Fictitious character)
• trueAfrican-Native American girls
• trueAfro-Indigenous girls
• trueAfro-Indigenous people
• trueAmerican people
• trueChildren of alcoholic mothers
• trueEleven-year-old girls
• Family -- Fiction
• trueFathers and daughters
• trueFoster care
• trueInterracial families

Language

eng

Summary

When ten-year-old Rayona's Native American mother enters a treatment facility, her estranged father, a Black man, finally introduces her to his side of the family, who are not at all what she expected

Storyline

• trueOwn voices
• trueCharacter-driven

Tone

• trueFunny
• trueBleak

Character

• trueCulturally diverse

Award

YALSA Best Books for Young Adults, 1998

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

LC call number

PZ7.D7287

LC item number

Wi 1997

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 4
• 8

Target audience

pre adolescent