Mystery of the Dark Tower
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In 1928, when her father tears her and her brother from their mother in North Carolina and takes them to live with aunts in Harlem, twelve-year-old Bessie is trapped in a strange place, especially after her father mysteriously disappears.
African AmericansFictionHarlem RenaissanceMystery and detective storiesParent and childHistoryJuvenile fictionChildren's fictionParent and child, fictionAfrican americans, fictionHarlem (new york, n.y.), fiction