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Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven
Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven
Author: Dawn Turner Trice
Eleven-year-old girl Tempestt and her family are given what is considered the chance of a lifetime: to move on up to Lakeland.  It's a chance to leave behind the gritty neighborhood Tempestt has known throughout her entire life for one square mile of pristine beauty carved out of a Chicago ghetto and secured by a 10-foot-tall, ivy-cove...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780385491235
ISBN-10: 0385491239
Publication Date: 2/17/1998
Pages: 304
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Publisher: Anchor
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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In 1975, Tempestt Saville and her family are chosen by lottery to "move on up" to Lakeland: one square mile of sparkling apartment towers and emerald lawns where the Black elite live sheltered from the ghetto by a ten-foot-tall, ivy-covered wrought-iron fence. Eleven year old Tammy doesn't enjoy the privilege. Instead, she is drawn to the vivid world outside the fence to 35th Street, where the saved and the sinners are both so "done up" you can't tell one from the other.


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