![]() Both Willie and Otis live in the Mercy Orphanage, where kind, spunky manager Lila Weiss is both a child advocate and motherly figure. ![]() Pinkney (Sit-In) alternates between the first-person perspectives of three resilient and tenacious protagonists%E2%80%9412-year-old minister%E2%80%99s daughter Hibernia, aka Bernie, who dreams of becoming a jazz singer like her absent mother 13-year-old abused and abandoned Willie, who must relinquish his dreams of boxing after his father burns his hands and orphaned 12-year-old Otis, who comforts himself with the riddles his parents loved. This rich historical novel offers an unsentimental and sometimes humorous glimpse into the Great Depression. ![]()
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