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Updated November 21, 2003
Plain City, by Virginia Hamilton (Young Adult)
Bulaire Sims is a going on thirteen version of her mother Bluezy Sims. Bluezy as her name suggests is a blues singer of some reputation in the local area and in not very reputable bars. Her father has been off the scene for many years. If it wasn’t for Bulaire’s aunts and uncle, she would have no one to look after her. Bulaire loves to watch her mother’s act and on occasion she is taken to an early show, but is whisked away by her uncle before things get too adult for Bulaire.
Bulaire is determined to find out about her father and why he has disappeared for so long. It is bad enough that society looks down on her and her family because of where she lives, but when she finds out that everything she has been told about her father is a lie, Bulaire sets out to find the truth for herself.