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      The Root Worker

      by Rainelle Burton
      Published
      Jun 2002
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      224
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      Terrified by the frightening world that surrounds her, from her family and school to the voodoo priestess who holds her mother in thrall, Ellen, an eleven-year-old African-American girl growing up in Detroit in the 1960s, desperately searches for a safe refuge and finds an ally in a neighbor who struggles to restore her trust in people. A first novel. Reprint.

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      First Edition Jun 2002 Penguin ISBN13 9780142000854 ISBN10 014200085X
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      May 2001 Overlook Press ISBN13 9781585671403 ISBN10 1585671401
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