Details

Subject(s)

• Families—Juvenile fiction [Browse]
• Romance fiction [Browse]
• Beauty shops—Juvenile fiction [Browse]
• African Americans—Juvenile fiction [Browse]
• Harlem (New York, N.Y.)—Juvenile fiction [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Young adult fiction [Browse]

Summary note

Fifteen interrelated stories explore different aspects of love, such as a dying father's determination to help start a family business--a beauty salon--and the relationship of two teens who plan to remain celibate until they marry.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Awards

A Junior Library Guild selection

Contents

• The fashion show, grand opening, and bar-b-que memorial service
• What would Jesus do?
• Mama
• The life you need to have
• Burn
• Some men are just funny that way
• Jump at the sun
• Law and order
• The man thing
• Society for the Preservation of Sorry-Butt Negroes
• Madonna
• The real deal
• Marisol and Skeeter
• Poets and plumbers
• Combat zone.

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ISBN

• 0385321384 (alk. paper) :
• 9780385321389 (alk. paper) :
• 0375937099 (alk. paper)
• 9780375937095 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007007057

OCLC

122701295

RCP

H - S

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