从桌上的佐伊华盛顿

她被监禁的父亲的来信提出谋杀生动详细地报告!传播暴力和绝对不是年龄合适!作者声称她拉的podcast“串行”成人谋杀案。市场不同年龄段!

这个故事有点不现实但我喜欢每一个字。童话故事做成真。12岁的佐伊是非凡的12岁。她知道自己想要什么,之后,头长!在她12岁生日,她收到一块奇怪的邮件从监狱的。从她被监禁的父亲,(Marcus),她从未见过的。他因谋杀被送进监狱之前佐伊诞生了。你可能想她妈妈要她与他无关。佐伊有两个目标……一个是为了证明她父亲的纯真和两个,作为一个有抱负的糕点厨师,她集瞄准完善烘焙技巧。 She plans to audition as a contestant on Food Network’s Kids Bake Challenge. After receiving the letter from her father, Zoe does something she has never done before, she begins Withholding the truth from her mother in order to correspond with her biological father. As it always does, and one lie leads to another and another. In the letters Marcus shares his favorite songs and encourages Zoe’s baking-competition dreams. “He seems really nice!” Then, when Marcus proclaims he is innocent, Zoe is shocked: How could someone who is innocent end up in prison? This was a realistic reaction for a 12 year old. Somehow Zoe has convinced her grandmother, (her mother’s mother), to help carry on the secret correspondence with her father. She even arranges phone communication between Zoe and Marcus. As Zoe’s enlightenment begins, she learns about systemic racism and how black people like her and Marcus are more likely to be wrongfully convicted of murder than white people. There are some well developed and powerful relationships among all the characters: Zoe, her mother, her step dad, grandma, Marcus, and best friend Trevor. This debut novel is extraordinary, timely, and a must-read story about love, family, friendship, and justice. (Fiction. 8-12)