Sarah's Psalm: A Novel groovy girls Sade Hussein is starting her

Sade Hussein is starting her third year of high school at the prestigious Alfred Nobel Academy boarding school

which is also her parents' store

A Chicago Public Library 'Best of the Best' BookA Kirkus Reviews Best Picture Book of the YearA Horn Book Fanfare BookA Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

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Sarah's Psalm: A Novel groovy girls Sade Hussein is starting herThis searing first novel is the story of Sarah Stewart, a young black Harvard graduate in the 1960s whose growing interest in Africaand down a path of self discovery, love, and the choice between loyalty and truth. This is at once the story of the emerging civil rights movement and the beginning of Afro centrism. Lyrical. Lyrical, moving, and ultimately uncompromising, Sarah's Psalm is also a powerful story of love and coming of age.