The House on Rondo Juvenile Fiction Historical - United States - 20th Century Lifestyles - Country Life African American & Black • 2005 New York Times

• 2005 New York Times Best Illustrated Book winner

The wordless narrative is told through expressive and detailed oil paintings

As featured on Humans of New York

the authors highlight the disparities that have long characterized the dangers of being Black in America

The House on Rondo Juvenile Fiction Historical - United States - 20th Century Lifestyles - Country Life African American & Black • 2005 New York TimesA young girl reckons with the demolition of a Black Saint Paul neighborhood to make way for the Interstate in the early 1960s When thirteen year old Zenobia has to leave her friends and spend the summer at Grandmas while Mama recovers from a stroke, life seems so unfair. But then the eviction letters start arriving throughout her grandparents neighborhood, and white men chalk arrows to mark the gas and water lines, and a new world of unfairness