Blackberries and Cream Author:Leslie Rivver Green Writers Press is proud to announce this exciting pre-publication news for our upcoming middle grade/young adult fiction, Blackberries and Cream, to be published October 1, 2015. Have you ever had the feeling you weren?t loved by the momma God gave you? �Lucky for Gracie, she has two mommas. �One cares for her every day while the other go... more »es off to work. �One is happy, strong and free while the other is sad, dark and depressed. �One is black. �The other is white. �One Gracie must leave. �� Grace Callaway lives down deep in Alabama during a turbulent time of protests, boycotts, and sit-ins. �It is a segregated world where black and white won?t mix. �But don?t tell that to Ida Bell and Grace. �� Ida Bell has been Gracie's nanny since the day she came home from the hospital in a shoebox. �They love each like a real mother and daughter. �Even way more. �But the summer Grace turns ten, her white momma decides they need to move away. �� Moving means just one thing: �leaving Ida Bell. �Grace knows she cannot go. �She knows she cannot let go. �How can she leave the person who raised her when her real momma couldn?t? �How can she leave the person who taught her how to walk, and who took her to her first day of school when her real momma wouldn?t? �If she leaves, who will keep her secrets? �Who will hold her? �Who will love her?
She can?t leave. �She won?t. �There must be a way to stay.« less