Locomotion -- Jacqueline Woodson, Paperback Cliff's/ Monarch / Barron's Book Notes Praise for The Empress of

Praise for The Empress of Salt and Fortune

Huitzilopochtli

and the exhilaration of pushing beyond self-imposed limits

Containing an extensive collection of traditional spells and techniques

an eating disorder

Locomotion -- Jacqueline Woodson, Paperback Cliff's/ Monarch / Barron's Book Notes Praise for The Empress ofFinalist for the National Book Award When Lonnie was seven years old, his parents died in a fire. Now he's eleven, and he still misses them terribly. And he misses his little sister, Lili, who was put into a different foster home because "not a lot of people want boys not foster boys that ain't babies." But Lonnie hasn't given up. His foster mother, Miss Edna, is growing on him. She's already raised two sons and she seems to know what makes them tick.