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The Root Worker
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Hardcover
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1 edition from Overlook Pr (June 1, 2001)
9781585671403 | details & prices | 200 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.05 lbs | List price $25.95
About: In Detroit in the 1960s, eleven-year-old Ellen tries to understand herself and her world as she is tormented by the nuns at her school; her mother, who believes Ellen is possessed; and the voodoo priestess who feeds her mother's fears.
Paperback
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Reprint edition from Penguin USA (June 1, 2002)
9780142000854 | details & prices | 5.00 × 7.50 × 0.50 in. | 0.45 lbs | List price $13.00
About: 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.
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