Breadsticks and Blessing Places

by Candy Dawson Boyd

A twelve-year-old black girl's preparations for the prestigious King Academy's entrance exam are disrupted when her best friend is killed. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0027092909
• ISBN13: 9780027092905
• Release Date: May 1985
• Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

If Only You Knew

In the beginning of the book Toni is worried that two of her best friends will never get along. When they finally all do start to become friends one of them dies, Suzanne. Toni is trying to cope with the idea but can't figure out how.Toni tries and tries but can't open up to friends and family. I liked this book because the situation that Toni has to go through can happen to anyone. Also because it teaches that even if you lose someone you still have to lead your own life. This book reminds me a little of the book "A Star Was Born" because in the story the girl's mom dies and her dad leaves so she has to go on in life and still do the best she can too.

Breadsticks and Blessing Places

Breadsticks and Blessing Places- an Great Multicultural Book for kids! This book is about a black girl named Toni who struggles with 6th grade math along with other growing issues. Her two friends, Mattie and Susan, stick by her. Mattie has no patience for flighty, fun-loving Toni and yet, she still helps her study. Susan, on the other hand, won't even answer Toni's letters while she's in New York!! That, on top of studying to get into King Academy, is making Toni even more depressed. Toni is very smart and gets "A's" in English and Reading but cannot get word problems and fractions in Math. To get into King Academy, you have to have good marks( A's and B's). Toni just has to get into King or else she'll have to go to an all Black school. She really wants to go to a Black and White school but she has to get her grades up in time!! Then, in the middle of the story, right after Susan and Toni and Mattie have a great day, Susan gets killed by a drunk driver!! Toni basically falls apart. She skips school, stops studying, and doesn't even want to go to her own friends funeral!! Will Toni pass the math exam and deal with the loss of her best friend?? Read the book to find out! I liked this book because it talked about realistic things that could happen to anyone. It also it talked about how to deal with death and pressure. Toni didn't like it when her friend died because it made her sad. Toni didn't even want to go to her best friend's funeral. Toni was also mad because at the funeral her friend was dressed in a pink dress which she never wore. This was a great story.