Smith, Hope Anita.

Keeping the night watch / Hope Anita Smith ; with illustrations by E.B. Lewis. - 1st ed. - New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2008. - 73 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.

A thirteen-year-old African American boy chronicles what happens to his family when his father, who temporarily left, returns home and they all must deal with their feelings of anger, hope, abandonment, and fear.

ISBN: 9780805072020 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0805072020 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2007012372

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Novels in verse.
Family life--Fiction.
Fathers--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.5.S54 / Ke 2008

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]