Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven

In 1975, Tempestt Saville and her family are chosen by lottery to "move on up" to Lakeland: one square mile of sparkling apartment towers and emerald lawns where the Black elite live sheltered from the ghetto by a ten-foot-tall, ivy-covered wrought-iron fence.Eleven-year-old Temmy doesn't enjoy the privilege, however, and thinks Lakeland is the "kingdom of the drab."Instead, she is drawn to the vivid world outside the fence: to 35th Street, where the saved and the sinners are both so "done up" you can't tell one from the other.Tempestt's curiosity soon leads her down a dangerous path, however, and after witnessing the death of a friend, she sets into motion a chain of events that will send 35th Street up in flames."

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 02/17/1998
ISBN: 9780385491235
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.05h x 5.22w x 0.74d
Award: Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary_award - Honor Book

Review Citations: Booklist 02/15/2000 pg. 1096

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 44558 / Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven: A Novel
Reading Level: 5.7 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 14