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Plain City parent’s guide: what’s inside
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Plain City is a thoughtful coming-of-age novel that explores identity, belonging, and family complexity through Buhlaire's search for her missing father. The book addresses mature themes like parental abandonment and family trauma with sensitivity and emotional depth, making it most appropriate for mature upper-middle-grade readers. Virginia Hamilton's acclaimed writing emphasizes self-discovery and resilience, with positive portrayals of multiracial identity and community relationships.
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Twelve-year-old Buhlaire, a "mixed" child who feels out of place in her community, struggles to unearth her past and her family history as she gradually discovers more and more about her long-missing father. Twelve-year-old Buhlaire, a "mixed" child who feels out of place in her community, struggles to unearth her past and her family history as she gradually discovers more and more about her long-missing father.
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- Racially mixed people
- Fiction
- Fathers and daughters
- African Americans
- Identity
- Children's fiction
- Fathers and daughters, fiction
- African americans, fiction
- Identity, fiction
- Racially mixed people, fiction
- Fiction, general
- Identity (Philosophical concept)
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ISBN 9780590473651 · Scholastic