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The Friends

By Rosa Guy

By Rosa Guy

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Mass Market Paperback $6.99

Dec 18, 1995 | ISBN 9780440226673 | Young Adult

The Friends by Rosa Guy
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Dec 18, 1995 | ISBN 9780440226673

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About The Friends

A powerful, award-winning novel about friendship.

Phyllisia Cathy—She is fourteen. Her problems seem overwhelming: New York, after life on her sunlit West Indies island, is cold, cruel and filthy. She is insulted daily and is beaten up by classmates. What Phyllisia needs, God not being interested, is a friend.

Edith Jackson—She is fifteen. Her clothes are unpressed, her stockings bagging with big holes. Her knowledge of school is zero. She has no parents, she swears and she steals. But she is kind and offers her friendship and protection to Phyllisia. “And so begins the struggle that is the heart of this very important book: the fight to gain perception of one’s own real character; the grim struggle for self-knowledge.”—Alice Walker, The New York Times

About Rosa Guy

Rosa Guy was born in Trinidad in 1922. After a troubled childhood and being forced to support her siblings at the age of 14, Ms. Guy pursued acting at the American Negro Theater in Harlem. She helped found the Harlem Writers Guild in… More about Rosa Guy

Product Details

Category: Teen & Young Adult Fiction | Teen & Young Adult Social Issues

Mass Market Paperback | $6.99
Published by Laurel Leaf
Dec 18, 1995 | 192 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-7/8 | Young Adult | ISBN 9780440226673

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