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My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich

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By Ibi Zoboi
Publisher Penguin
My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich
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Description National Book Awardfinalist Ibi Zoboi makes her middlegrade debut with a moving story of a girl finding her place in a world thats changing at warp speed.Twelveyearold EbonyGrace Norfleet has lived with her beloved grandfather Jeremiah in Huntsville, Alabama ever since she was little. As one of the first black engineers to integrate NASA, Jeremiah has nurtured EbonyGraces love for all things outer space and science fictionespeciallyStar WarsandStar Trek. But in the summer of 1984, when trouble arises with Jeremiah, its decided shell spend a few weeks with her father in Harlem.Harlem is an exciting and terrifying place for a sheltered girl from Hunstville, and EbonyGraces first instinct is to retreat into her imagination. B...

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63188 words63,188 words
256 pages256 pages
Lexile 830L Lexile 830L
Grade 5 to 12Grade 5 to 12
Published 2019Published 2019

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9780399187377

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