![]() She has succeeded, even more impressively, in making the "dark" world surrounding Alma shine with small - but life-changing - possibility. ![]() Griffin has created a character at once bitter and optimistic. Griffin, BlackbirdJack Merek, Problem SolvingIan Robertson, Monthly weather review Volume 36United States. Just when things seem hopeless, Alma discovers the cat door in her neighbor's often-empty home, and an unintended window opens into a better world, full of music.Īnd what could be the harm in Alma's stealing (borrowing, really) a little peace and quiet, maybe even a ticket to her future? J FIC Griffin Two twelve-year-old girls in San Antonio, Texas, Ada in 1891 and Amber in 1991, switch places through a magic. She misses her grandmother her big brother Eddie back when he didn't deal drugs the freedom she had before her baby niece Silvita was born and now, worst of all, she misses Jovita, the singer she idolized who was recently killed in a drive-by shooting. She could feel it, thumping in her brain, but couldn't hear it well enough to even hum it. ![]() An angry song, for Jovita and her killer, and Eddie, and everybody whose family did things that everybody had to live with. There was a new song playing in the back of Alma's head. ![]() In a harsh and noisy time, a young girl's key to her dreams - music - may be closer than she thinks. ![]()
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