Coretta Scott King Honor winner Brenda Woods' moving, uplifting story of a girl finally meeting the African American side of her family explores racism and how it feels to be biracial, and celebrates families of all kinds.

Violet is biracial, but she lives with her white mother and sister, attends a mostly white school in a white town, and sometimes feels like a brown leaf on a pile of snow. Now that she's eleven, she feels it's time to learn about her African American heritage, so she seeks out her paternal grandmother. When Violet is invited to spend two weeks with her new Bibi (Swahili for "grandmother") and learns about her lost heritage, her confidence in herself grows and she discovers she's not a shrinking Violet after all. From a Coretta Scott King Honor-winning author, this is a powerful story about a young girl finding her place in the world.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Puffin Books
Published: 01/22/2015
ISBN: 9780147514301
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.20w x 0.90d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 163322 / Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond
Reading Level: 4.3 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 6