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Gr 9 Up—Set in 1930s Seattle, this work tells the story of two teenagers whose destinies are being manipulated by powers far beyond their control. An orphan from a poor African American family who works as an airplane mechanic by day and a jazz singer at night, Flora dreams of being the next Amelia Earhart. Henry lives just a few blocks away, but he is white, and his adoptive family is wealthy. A bright future of college and a career lies ahead of him, but he is distracted by his love o...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Love and Death have played many Games down through the centuries -- and Death has always won. The setting for this particular battle is Depression-era Seattle, and while Love has chosen as his player Henry Bishop, a white boy taken in after his parents’ deaths by the wealthy Thorne family and raised in privilege and high society, Death has selected a scrappy survivor: Flora Saudade, an African American aviatrix who moonlights as a jazz singer. In fact, the two seventeen-year-o...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Love and Death have played Games through the centuries--and Death has always won. In Depression-era Seattle, Love chooses as his ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More