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Ola Shakes It up

by Joanne Hyppolite

ISBN13: 9780307539052
ISBN10: 0307539059
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Moving? When Ola Benson's family leaves Roxbury in Boston to a house in the suburbs, Ola is sure her parents have made a big mistake.What on Earth are they doing in Walcott--a historic, stuck-up town where the Bensons are the only black family?

True, there are a few good things about the move: Mama and Daddy have better jobs.They have a bigger house, big enough to offer a home to Lillian, a Haitian refugee.But the house is in a "cooperative community" with a million rules: No kids outside after dark.No playing in the street.No jumping in the leaves.No fun.

Well, if Ola's stuck in Walcott, she'll make it a place where she can feel at home.Ola the undaunted comes up with plan after plan, including Operation Pretend I Belong Here and Operation Smile If It Kills You.Finally she hits upon the superspecial can't miss plan: Operation Shake It Up.

Joanne Hyppolite celebrates community, cooperation, and family life in a warm and realistic story with an irrepressible heroine.

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ISBN:: 9780307539052
Publisher:: Random House Children's Books
Subject:: Juvenile Fiction : People & Places - United States - African
Illustrator:: Chang, Warren
Illustrator:: Warren Chang
Calligrapher:: Chang, Warren
Author:: Hyppolite, Joanne
Author:: Warren Chang
Author:: Chang, Warren
Author:: Joanne Hyppolite
Subject:: Ethnic - African American
Subject:: Children's Baby - Sociology
Subject:: Children's Baby - Fiction - General
Subject:: Children s All Ages - Fiction - General
Subject:: People & Places - United States - African-American
Subject:: Children's 4-8 - Fiction - General
Subject:: Children's 9-12 - Fiction - General
Subject:: Children s-General
Subject:: main_subject
Subject:: all_subjects
Publication Date:: 20011106
Binding:: ELECTRONIC
Language:: English
Pages:: 176
Age Level:: Children s All Ages - Fiction - General

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