Hold Fast, like Blue Balliett's other books, involves a mystery. Early, our young black protagonist, is distraught when her father doesn't come home one night. (As the reader, we know there has been some sort of car accident but we are not sure how it relates to the story.) No one believes Early or her mother when they call the police to report her father, Dashel, missing. Things just get worse from there. Two men break into the apartment and threaten Early, her mother and her little brother then ransack their home. Soon afterward, without Dashel's paycheck the family loses their apartment and become homeless. Early is determined to save her family and find out what happened to her father. The book is an eye-opening look into the world of homeless children and the shelter system.
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