A review by suzannedix
Becoming Billie Holiday by Carole Boston Weatherford

4.0

What a tragic yet talented woman Billie Holiday was! This short, free verse biography is beautifully written and doesn't shy away from all the grit and grime in Billie's young life: rape, working in a brothel, abandonment by her father, transient living...Talk about rising up!

Grades 8 and up.