Book description
A young black girl growing up in Harlem tells about her life with her family and her ambition to be an artist.
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1 author picked Peaches as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Millicent Johnson (Peaches) has a whimsical imagination and dreams of becoming an artist.
Being raised by her grandmother along with her cousins in 1970s Harlem, their summers are filled with the freedom to wander the neighborhood and get into all sorts of trouble.
Yes, it’s a middle-grade book. I first read this book in seventh grade. I’ve no idea how many books I’d read up until that point but it was literally in the hundreds. This was the first book I’d read that I didn’t have to fully engage my whole imagination.
It realistically reflected my actual life… from the…
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