Saving Savannah

by Tonya Bolden

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  It really does take a village! And Village Bloomsbury is, plain and simple, wondrous.

  Thanks is also due to my sister, Nelta Gallemore, for carefully reading more than one draft, letting me pick your brain on fashion, and so much else; to friend and fellow writer Sharon G. Flake for being a terrific sounding board; to Barbados-born friend Karen Best for reviewing the manuscript for all things Bajan and especially for correcting my Bajan dialogue; to Haiti-born friend Dr. Mona Rigaud for assists with medical matters and Creole; to friend and fellow history lover John G. Sharp, retired Navy (military and civilian) for taking my questions on Washington, DC. And thank you Marian Mills at the American Philatelic Research Library for guiding me to the correct stamp!

  Agent Jennifer Lyons, ever grateful for the way you champion my work.

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  First published in the United States of America in January 2020 by Bloomsbury YA

  Text copyright © 2020 by Tonya Bolden

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Names: Bolden, Tonya, author.

  Title: Saving Savannah / by Tonya Bolden.

  Description: New York : Bloomsbury, 2020.

  Summary: Savannah Riddle feels suffocated by her life as the daughter of an upper-class African American family in Washington, DC, until she meets a working-class girl named Nella, who introduces her to the suffragette and socialist movements and to her politically active cousin Lloyd.

  Identifiers: LCCN 2019019792 (print) | LCCN 2019022393 (e-book)

  ISBN 978-1-68119-804-0 (hardcover) • ISBN 978-1-68119-805-7 (e-book)

  Subjects: CYAC: Social classes—Fiction. | Suffragists—Fiction. | Socialism—Fiction. | Race relations—Fiction. | African Americans—Fiction. | Washington (D.C.)—History—20th century—Fiction.

  Classification: LCC PZ7.B635855 Sav 2020 (print) | LCC PZ7.B635855 (e-book) | DDC [Fic]—dc23

  LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019019792

  LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019022393

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