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Your Plantation Prom Is Not Okay
β Scribed by Kelly McWilliams
- Book ID
- 111998127
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
- Year
- 2023
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 705 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780316450133
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
This sharp-witted, timely novel explores cancel culture, anger, and grief, and challenges the romanticization of America 's racist past with humor and heart--for readers of Dear Martin by Nic Stone and Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson.
Harriet Douglass lives with her historian father on an old plantation in Louisiana, which they've transformed into one of the South's few enslaved people's museums. Together, while grieving the recent loss of Harriet's mother, they run tours that help keep the memory of the past alive.
Harriet's world is turned upside down by the arrival of mother and daughter Claudia and Layla Hartwell--who plan to turn the property next door into a wedding venue, and host the offensively antebellum-themed wedding of two Hollywood stars.
Harriet's fully prepared to hate Layla Hartwell, but it seems that Layla might not be so bad after...
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