6/11/2023 0 Comments Peas and carrots by tanita s davis![]() Dess struggles with being separated from her brother and with the sudden appearance of controlling adults.ĭess has a grandmother, but she is just too old to care for Dess and her brother, something Dess doesn’t understand and cannot forgive her for. Dess has endured years of abuse and neglect and has a baby brother she has tried to help care for, but ultimately they were put into the foster care system. She is going to be a witness against Dess’s father, an abusive drug dealer who her mother has been tied to for years by her drug habit and children. Davis, the Coretta Scott King Honor author of Mare’s War, a white teen named Dess is placed into foster care with a black family while her mother is incarcerated.ĭess has had a hard life. And things have gotten more complicated since her mother is incarcerated for her own protection. From Goodreads: In this new YA novel by Tanita S. ![]()
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