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Time Pieces

by Virginia Hamilton

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This book is about a girl Valena, who is finding who she is, where she came from, and how she got to be who she is today. She first hears of her grandfathers story of how he traveled the underground railroad to freedom and then continues finding out all of her history and how it relates to who she is now.
  Molly2Faith | Feb 23, 2010 |
This story is about a little girl, Valena, who learns about her great grandfather's travel through the underground railraod. She finds herself being able to relate to the pains he felt by how she is growing up now. She feels her life story being told around her from the past, present, and future. After learning and seeing all she does it makes her want to improve her life and move to do bigger and better things.

http://www.virginiahamilton.com/
This is her offical website which can be useful to futrue children as well as children.
  agwood | Feb 23, 2010 |
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"There's nothing like the stars tonit, no sir, "Valena's dad said to her.
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0439517141, Mass Market Paperback)

The last book from Newbery Medalist Virginia Hamilton, this autobiographical novella brings together the slave past and multi-generational present life of a young girl in Ohio.

A quietly beautiful coming-of-age story from a master storyteller. Eleven-year-old Valena lives in both the present and the past as she struggles with racism in her daily life and listens to and learns from her mother’s tales of her family's proud history. Moving backward and forward in time, these pieces of Valena's life blend to form an extraordinary portrait of the ties that bind her family together over generations.
Virginia Hamilton has deftly woven together moments in one family's history into a seamless and poignant masterpiece.

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Valena, her family, and dog live in rural Ohio, where she and her cousin Melinda share experiences that include seeing the aurora borealis, surviving a tornado, and going to an amazing circus.

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