If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson

If You Come Softly (Puffin Teenage Books S.)

by Jacqueline Woodson

After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions.

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The fact that this book that is over 20 years old is something that we are still seeing happening out in the world is heartbreaking.

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