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The game of Love and Death

by Martha Brockenbrough

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In Seattle in 1937 two seventeen-year-olds, Henry, who is white, and Flora, who is African-American, become the unwitting pawns in a game played by two immortal figures, Love and Death, where they must choose each other at the end, or one of them will die.

Teenage boysMan-woman relationshipsLoveAfrican American teenage girlsJuvenile fictionRace relationsFictionDeathAfrican AmericansHistoryChildren's fictionBoys, fiction