Johnson, Varian,

The Parker inheritance / Varian Johnson. - First edition. - 331 pages ; 22 cm

Twelve-year-old Candice Miller is spending the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, in the old house that belonged to her grandmother, who died after being dismissed as city manager for having the city tennis courts dug up looking for buried treasure--but when she finds the letter that sent her grandmother on the treasure hunt, she finds herself caught up in the mystery and, with the help of her new friend and fellow book-worm, Brandon, she sets out to find the inheritance, exonerate her grandmother, and expose an injustice once committed against an African American family in Lambert.

9780545946179 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0545946174 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780545952781 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0545952786 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2017042551


African American girls--Juvenile fiction.
Treasure troves--Juvenile fiction.
Grandmothers--Juvenile fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Juvenile fiction.
Friendship--Juvenile fiction.
Detective and mystery stories.
Mystery and detective stories.
African Americans--Fiction.
Buried treasure--Fiction.
Grandmothers--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.


South Carolina--Juvenile fiction.
South Carolina--Fiction.


Mystery fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.

PZ7.J63844 / Par 2018

813.6 Fic