Daddy Was a Number Runner Young Hoosier Book Award a masterful musician

a masterful musician

Linton must now examine the realities of her own life - of her childhood

and belonging

The Wit and Wisdom of William Shakespeare proves that brevity is the soul of wit and is sure to delight all lovers of the Bard’s uniquely perceptive and influential works

Daddy Was a Number Runner Young Hoosier Book Award a masterful musicianTold from the perspective of a 12 year old girl, this popular novel documents the disintergration of a black family in Harlem in the 1930s. A compelling, readable, occasionally funny work, it vividly illuminates the life of the ghetto, not just the despair and the violence, but the pride and the vitality as well.