Toning the sweep /
Angela Johnson.
- New York : Orchard Books, c1993.
- 103 p. ; 22 cm.
"A Richard Jackson book"--Half title p.
On a visit to her grandmother Ola, who is dying of cancer in her house in the desert, fourteen-year-old Emmie hears many stories about the past and her family history and comes to a better understanding of relatives both dead and living.
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Grandmothers--Fiction. Family life--Fiction. Deserts--Fiction. Cancer--Fiction. African Americans--Fiction.