charlottesville (va.)

"Set in the 1930s in the African American community of Vinegar Hill in Charlottesville, Virginia, ten-year-old Allie devises a secret Man for Mama Plan to find her mama a husband"--Provided by publisher.

While Mary Frazier Armstrong lays dying, she writes letters to her family and friends telling them exactly what she thinks of them.

The lives of three young people are changed when they attend a workshop with Cole, the son of Rex Conner, a man whose grief over the drowning of his girlfriend's young sister while he was supposed to be watching led him to look for opportunities to do good for others.

In Charlottesville, Virginia, amidst the social and political turmoil of 1969, eleven-year-old Alice learns when to fight battles and when to let go from her family's elderly gardener, Doc, and begins to connect with her widowed mother.