22 Friar Street

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This is a touching "Coming of Age" story about a white, female student, Peggy Dana, who belatedly accepts a basketball scholarship to the University of Maryland. Because she accepts her scholarship quite late, she can not obtain housing on campus. The only housing still available to her is with an older, childless black couple who live in the community. Peggy accepts it and her education quickly involves much more than her studies. Emotionally scarred by an uncaring mother, assaulted by her mother's live-in boyfriend, Peggy enters the unknown new world of the Ellens. The Ellens, a refined, educated, concerned and caring couple hold Peggy to a higher standard than she has ever had to face before. This comfortable, but unfamiliar atmosphere proves to contain as many pitfalls and challenges as her previous unstructured life. Important lessons concerning race relations, cultural and age differences, vulnerability, integrity and true parental love unfold in a quick-paced tale with fascinating twists and turns. Ultimately, 22 Friar Street is an address not to be forgotten. As a place of hope, of family, of racial harmony, and straightforward, heartfelt love, 22 Friar Street feels like home.


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Peggy, the eldest daughter in a dysfunctional family, has won a basketball scholarship to the University Maryland but her mother wants her to stay home and take care of the younger children. Mustering up all her courage, she accepts the scholarship, but is too late to find housing on campus. She is referred to a family on 22 Friar Street with a room for rent. When she discovers that the family is black, she faces her own prejudice and finds the loving, caring family she never had before.


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