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The Friends

Rosa Guy

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English
Random House USA Inc
31 March 1999
A powerful, award-winning novel about friendship.

Phyllisia Cathy-She is fourteen. Her problems seem overwhelming- New York, after life on her sunlit West Indies island, is cold, cruel and filthy. She is insulted daily and is beaten up by classmates. What Phyllisia needs, God not being interested, is a friend.

Edith Jackson-She is fifteen. Her clothes are unpressed, her stockings bagging with big holes. Her knowledge of school is zero. She has no parents, she swears and she steals. But she is kind and offers her friendship and protection to Phyllisia. ""And so begins the struggle that is the heart of this very important book- the fight to gain perception of one's own real character; the grim struggle for self-knowledge.""-Alice Walker, The New York Times
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Imprint:   Random House USA Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 171mm,  Width: 105mm,  Spine: 12mm
Weight:   113g
ISBN:   9780440226673
ISBN 10:   0440226678
Pages:   192
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 12 years
Audience:   Children/juvenile ,  Young adult ,  Primary & secondary/elementary & high school ,  English as a second language ,  Preschool (0-5)
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Rosa Guy was born in Trinidad in 1922. After a troubled childhood and being forced to support her siblings at the age of 14, Ms. Guy pursued acting at the American Negro Theater in Harlem.She helped foundthe Harlem Writers Guildin 1950. Rosa Guy went on to become one of the most acclaimed young adult authors of the 20th century. She was known for writing very candidly about subjects that few others dared to broach in young adult fiction, includingtensions between American blacks and Afro-Caribbean immigrants, and gay romance. Guy passed away in 2012.

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