02297cam a2200541 i 4500 1056218325 TxAuBib 20210524120000.0 141219s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2014040314 9780803734746 trade 0803734743 trade KHPB566 eng rda NJQ ICrlF TxAuBib rda Going, K. L, author, (Kelly L.) Pieces of why / K.L. Going. New York, New York : Kathy Dawson Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, [2015] 209 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier School Library Journal, July 2015. Publisher's Weekly, July 2015. Booklist, July 2015. School Library Journal. Publisher's Weekly. Booklist. Twelve-year-old Tia lives in a white slum in New Orleans with her mother, and her whole world revolves around singing in the gospel choir with her best friend, Keisha--but when practice is interrupted by a shooting outside the church, and a baby is killed, Tia finds that she cannot sing, and she is forced to confront her feelings about her incarcerated father who killed a girl in a failed robbery years before. 4.9 Follett Library Resources. 5-8 Follett Library Resources. 5-8. 20210524. Gospel singers Juvenile fiction. Gospel singers Fiction. Children's choirs Juvenile fiction. Children of prisoners Juvenile fiction. Traumatic neuroses Juvenile fiction. Traumatic neuroses Fiction. Fathers and daughters Juvenile fiction. Fathers and daughters fiction. Mothers and daughters Juvenile fiction. Mothers and daughters Fiction. Choirs Fiction. Neuroses Fiction. Father-daughter relationship Fiction. Mother-daughter relationship Fiction. New Orleans (La) Juvenile fiction. New Orleans (La) Fiction.