Only Twice I've Wished For Heaven by Dawn Turner Trice, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

In 1975 young Tempestt Saville and her family are chosen by lottery to "move on up" to Lakeland: one square mile of rich black soil carved out of a Chicago ghetto, cradling sparkling apartment towers where the elite of black professionals live behind a ten-foot-high, ivy-covered fence. But 11-year-old Temmy is drawn to the world outside the fence, to 35th Street, a place of colorful, often dangerous characters | Only Twice I've Wished For Heaven by Dawn Turner Trice, Paperback | Indigo Chapters