Copyright © 2019 by Mariama J. Lockington
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is printed in the hardcover edition as follows:
Names: Lockington, Mariama, author.
Title: For black girls like me / Mariama J. Lockington.
Description: First edition. | New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2019. | Summary: Eleven-year-old Makeda dreams of meeting her African American mother, while coping with serious problems in her white adopted family, a cross-country move, and being homeschooled.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018035461 | ISBN 9780374308049 (hardcover) | ISBN (ebook) 9780374308063
Subjects: | CYAC: Identity—Fiction. | African Americans—Fiction. | Interracial adoption—Fiction. | Family problems—Fiction. | Home schooling—Fiction. | Moving, Household—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.1.L6235 For 2019 | DDC [Fic]—dc23
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First hardcover edition, 2019
eBook edition, July 2019
eISBN 9780374308063