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Chill wind / Janet McDonald.

Afraid that she will have no where to go when her welfare checks are stopped, nineteen-year-old high school dropout Aisha tries to figure out how she can support herself and her two young children in New York City.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McDonald, Janet, 1953-2007.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2006, ©2002.
Edition:Farrar Straus and Giroux paperback ed.
Subjects:
Teenage mothers > Juvenile fiction.
African Americans > Juvenile fiction.
Public welfare > Juvenile fiction.
Mothers and daughters > Juvenile fiction.
Teenage mothers > Fiction.
African Americans > Fiction.
Public welfare > Fiction.
Mothers and daughters > Fiction.
African-American teenage mothers > Fiction.
Welfare > Fiction.
Nineteen-year-old women > Fiction.
African-American women > Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) > Juvenile fiction.
New York (N.Y.) > Fiction.
Description
Summary:Afraid that she will have no where to go when her welfare checks are stopped, nineteen-year-old high school dropout Aisha tries to figure out how she can support herself and her two young children in New York City.
Physical Description:134 pages ; 21 cm.
Audience:Young Adult.
Awards:John Steptoe Award for New Talent, author, 2003.
ISBN:0374411832
9780374411831

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