Adventures with Claudie Juvenile Fiction Places - Asia Girls & Women Social Themes - Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance that there is goodness in

that there is goodness in the world

and her Girl Genius celebrity

and others—of the harsh and harmful experiences confronting Black girls in schools

In Thicker than Water

including selling items at a yard sale

Adventures with Claudie Juvenile Fiction Places - Asia Girls & Women Social Themes - Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance that there is goodness inClaudie is traveling from Harlem to Georgia with Mama and Cousin Sidney to meet her grandmother and cousins for the first time. She hopes that learning her family's story will inspire her for the variety show she's planning to raise money to save the boardinghouse her family lives in. Claudie's grandmother tells her a legend from slavery times called The People Could Fly." In it, an old man whispers magic words, and the enslaved people grow wings and