The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature.

It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove -- a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others -- who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 12/28/1993
ISBN: 9780375411557
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 7.55h x 5.28w x 0.83d

Review Citations: Essence 08/01/2011 pg. 85
Essence 02/01/2011 pg. 168
Entertainment Weekly 06/27/2014 pg. 23

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 36938 / Bluest Eye
Reading Level: 5.2 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 8