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      Clover

      by Dori Sanders
      Published
      Jan 1990
      Main Genre
      General Fiction General Fiction
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      192
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      About This Book

      "An honest and refreshing novel that makes an important statement about the barriers between blacks and whites" by the author of Her Own Place (San Francisco Chronicle).

      Clover Hill is ten years old when her father, the principal of the local elementary school, marries a white woman, Sara Kate. Just hours later, an automobile accident compels Clover to forge a relationship with the new stepmother she hardly knows in this beautiful, enduring novel about a family lost and found. First published by Algonquin in 1990 and winner of the Lillian Smith Award for Southern literature that enhances racial awareness, Clover is a national bestseller and has been recommended reading for classrooms across the country. Now on our thirtieth anniversary we have the pleasure of republishing this Algonquin classic in trade paperback, with an original essay by the author. In the spirit of Cold Sassy Tree and The Secret Life of Bees, Clover is a witty, insightful classic for readers of all ages.

      "Striking . . . The author has staked out an impressive new territory here, replete with peach farmers, textile workers, drunks and crazy people, with the newly middle class as well as the terminally poor . . . Clover is very much the genuine item." —The New York Times Book Review
      "Warmly engrossing . . . Sanders writes with wit and authority in this unusual gem of a love story." —Chicago Tribune
      "Black vernacular as convincing as Alice Walker's, imaginative metaphors that rival Maya Angelou's and humor as delicious as Zora Neale Hurston's." —Publishers Weekly

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      General Fiction

      Age Level

      Kids (12 & Under) Kids: Middle Grade

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      Apr 1991 Ballantine ISBN13 9780449906248 ISBN10 0449906248
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      Mar 1994 Ballantine ISBN13 9780449453551 ISBN10 0449453553
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      Aug 1997 Fawcett ISBN13 9780449457870 ISBN10 0449457877
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      Sep 2013 Algonquin ISBN13 9781616203405 ISBN10 1616203404
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      First Edition Jan 1990 Algonquin ISBN13 9780945575269 ISBN10 0945575262
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      Apr 1991 Sagebrush ISBN13 9780833574022 ISBN10 0833574027
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      Apr 1991 Turtleback Books ISBN13 9780606008600 ISBN10 0606008608
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      May 1991 Perfection Learning ISBN13 9780780720572 ISBN10 0780720571
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      Jan 1990 Algonquin ISBN13 9781565127166 ISBN10 1565127161
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      Jan 1990 Algonquin Books ISBN10 B007VE1CBY
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      Sep 2013 Algonquin Books ISBN10 B00ERCWPG4
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      Nov 2011 Recorded Books ISBN10 B006C60EOS
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      Dec 1990 G.K. Hall & Company ISBN13 9780816150489 ISBN10 0816150486
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