We look forward to seeing you on your next visit to the library. Find a location near you.

Black Dove White Raven
(Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read)

Book Cover
Average Rating
5 star
 
(1)
4 star
 
(0)
3 star
 
(0)
2 star
 
(0)
1 star
 
(0)
Published:
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers 2015
Accelerated Reader:
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure:
900L
Status:
Checked Out
Description
Don’t miss Elizabeth Wein’s stunning new novel, Stateless
Emilia and Teo's lives changed in a fiery, terrifying instant when a bird strike brought down the plane their stunt pilot mothers were flying. Teo's mother died immediately, but Em's survived, determined to raise Teo according to his late mother's wishes-in a place where he won't be discriminated against because of the color of his skin. But in 1930s America, a white woman raising a black adoptive son alongside a white daughter is too often seen as a threat.
Seeking a home where her children won't be held back by ethnicity or gender, Rhoda brings Em and Teo to Ethiopia, and all three fall in love with the beautiful, peaceful country. But that peace is shattered by the threat of war with Italy, and teenage Em and Teo are drawn into the conflict. Will their devotion to their country, its culture and people, and each other be their downfall or their salvation?
In the tradition of her award-winning and bestselling Code Name Verity, Elizabeth Wein brings us another thrilling and deeply affecting novel that explores the bonds of friendship, the resilience of young pilots, and the strength of the human spirit.
Also in This Series
Formats
Adobe EPUB eBook
Works on all eReaders (except Kindles), desktop computers and mobile devices with reading apps installed.
Kindle Book
Works on Kindles and devices with a Kindle app installed.
OverDrive Read
Need Help?
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.
More Like This
Other Editions and Formats
More Copies In LINK+
Loading LINK+ Copies...
More Details
Format:
Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read
Street Date:
03/31/2015
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781484707807, 9780316589543
ASIN:
B00Q7APKGG
Accelerated Reader:
UG
Level 5.8, 16 Points
Lexile measure:
900
Reviews from GoodReads
Loading GoodReads Reviews.
Citations
APA Citation (style guide)

Elizabeth Wein. (2015). Black Dove White Raven. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Elizabeth Wein. 2015. Black Dove White Raven. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Elizabeth Wein, Black Dove White Raven. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2015.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Elizabeth Wein. Black Dove White Raven. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2015.

Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
Copy Details
LibraryOwnedAvailable
Shared Digital Collection10

There is 1 hold on this title.

Staff View
Grouped Work ID:
780d9a89-b1ee-5d21-e245-e7dfe0efe1bc
Go To Grouped Work
Needs Update?:
No
Date Added:
Jun 12, 2018 17:36:04
Date Updated:
Nov 14, 2022 19:14:23
Last Metadata Check:
Mar 27, 2023 18:38:00
Last Metadata Change:
Mar 05, 2023 11:08:33
Last Availability Check:
Mar 27, 2023 18:38:01
Last Availability Change:
Mar 27, 2023 18:38:01
Last Grouped Work Modification Time:
Mar 27, 2023 18:37:19

OverDrive Product Record

sortTitle
Black Dove White Raven
crossRefId
2247932
images
    • cover:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/2508-1/{3CA5788D-6438-449B-9528-19A319865DA3}Img100.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • thumbnail:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/2508-1/{3CA5788D-6438-449B-9528-19A319865DA3}Img200.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover150Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/2508-1/3CA/578/8D/{3CA5788D-6438-449B-9528-19A319865DA3}Img150.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover300Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/2508-1/3CA/578/8D/{3CA5788D-6438-449B-9528-19A319865DA3}Img400.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
formats
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9780316589543
      • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
      • id: ebook-epub-adobe
      • identifiers:
            • type: ASIN
            • value: B00Q7APKGG
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9780316589543
      • name: Kindle Book
      • id: ebook-kindle
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9780316589543
      • name: OverDrive Read
      • id: ebook-overdrive
mediaType
eBook
primaryCreator
    • role: Author
    • name: Elizabeth Wein
id
3CA5788D-6438-449B-9528-19A319865DA3
title
Black Dove White Raven
starRating
4.1
dateAdded
2018-01-25T23:06:18.97Z
contentDetails
      • href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=141&titleID=2247932
      • type: text/html
      • account:
          • name: Sacramento Public Library (CA)
          • id: 1151

OverDrive MetaData

interestLevel
UG
isPublicDomain
False
formats
      • fileName: BlackDoveWhiteRaven_9781484707807_2247932
      • partCount: 0
      • fileSize: 4151572
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9781484707807
      • rights:
            • type: Copying
            • value: 0
            • type: Printing
            • value: 0
            • type: Lending
            • value: 0
            • type: ReadAloud
            • value: 0
            • type: ExpirationRights
            • value: 0
      • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
      • id: ebook-epub-adobe
      • onSaleDate: 03/31/2015
      • samples:
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=3ca5788d-6438-449b-9528-19a319865da3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
      • fileName: BlackDoveWhiteRaven_9780316589543_2247932
      • partCount: 0
      • fileSize: 0
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9780316589543
            • type: ASIN
            • value: B00Q7APKGG
      • name: Kindle Book
      • id: ebook-kindle
      • onSaleDate: 03/31/2015
      • samples:
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=3ca5788d-6438-449b-9528-19a319865da3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
      • fileName: BlackDoveWhiteRaven_9781484707807_2247932
      • partCount: 0
      • fileSize: 1475937
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9781484707807
      • name: OverDrive Read
      • id: ebook-overdrive
      • onSaleDate: 03/31/2015
      • samples:
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=3ca5788d-6438-449b-9528-19a319865da3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
creators
      • role: Author
      • fileAs: Wein, Elizabeth
      • bioText: Elizabeth Wein was born in New York City, grew up abroad, and currently lives in Scotland with her husband and two children. She is an avid flyer of small planes. She also holds a PhD in Folklore from the University of Pennsylvania. Visit her at www.elizabethwein.com.
      • name: Elizabeth Wein
imprint
Disney Hyperion
publishDate
2015-03-31T05:00:00+01:00
ATOS
5.8
isOwnedByCollections
True
title
Black Dove White Raven
fullDescription
Don’t miss Elizabeth Wein’s stunning new novel, Stateless
Emilia and Teo's lives changed in a fiery, terrifying instant when a bird strike brought down the plane their stunt pilot mothers were flying. Teo's mother died immediately, but Em's survived, determined to raise Teo according to his late mother's wishes-in a place where he won't be discriminated against because of the color of his skin. But in 1930s America, a white woman raising a black adoptive son alongside a white daughter is too often seen as a threat.
Seeking a home where her children won't be held back by ethnicity or gender, Rhoda brings Em and Teo to Ethiopia, and all three fall in love with the beautiful, peaceful country. But that peace is shattered by the threat of war with Italy, and teenage Em and Teo are drawn into the conflict. Will their devotion to their country, its culture and people, and each other be their downfall or their salvation?
In the tradition of her award-winning and bestselling Code Name Verity, Elizabeth Wein brings us another thrilling and deeply affecting novel that explores the bonds of friendship, the resilience of young pilots, and the strength of the human spirit.
gradeLevels
      • value: Grade 4
      • value: Grade 5
reviews
      • premium: True
      • source: Publisher's Weekly
      • content:

        Starred review from January 26, 2015
        Wein returns to Africa, the setting of her Lion Hunters series, with protagonists who share an avocation with those in her award-winning novels Code Name Verity and Rose Under Fire. Delia and Rhoda are stunt pilots, barnstorming the American countryside in the 1920s, each with a child in tow. When Delia is killed during an air show, Rhoda commits to fulfilling their dream of raising Teo, whose father was Ethiopian, in a place where he won’t be discriminated against because of his skin color. Rhoda resettles Teo and her own daughter, Emilia, at an Ethiopian coffee plantation just as Haile Selassie takes power—and as Mussolini’s troops prepare for an invasion. The novel, which opens with the knowledge that Teo is missing, is constructed as a series of letters, school essays, flight logs, and excerpts of fantasy stories written by Teo and Emilia, all of which Emilia is sending to Selassie in a plea for help. While the conceit tests credulity, Wein brings this fascinating period in history to life with several well-engineered plot twists, lots of high-flying, nail-biting tension, and meticulous research. Ages 12–up. Agent: Ginger Clark, Curtis Brown.

      • premium: True
      • source: Kirkus
      • content:

        January 15, 2015
        Wein returns to Ethiopia, the setting of her Arthurian adventures, for a high-flying novel about the 1935 Italian invasion.Emilia Menotti and Teodros Dupre share no DNA, but they are otherwise as close as siblings could be. Their aviator mothers had performed together as barnstormers Black Dove and White Raven until a bird strike killed Teo's mother as the two women were preparing to immigrate to Ethiopia, where Teo's father had come from. Alone, Momma raises them on a remote coffee cooperative, an idyll cut short as tensions rise between the independent African nation and Italy, whose colonies border it. Wein does again what she did so beautifully in Code Name Verity (2012) and Rose Under Fire (2013): She plaits together the historical record, her passion for flying and ferociously vivid characters to create a heartbreaking adventure that grounds readers in the moment even as geopolitical complexity threatens to knock them off their feet. The story is pieced together from a combination of documents; Emmy's opening begging Haile Selassie for help is followed by a collection of the two teens' writings, including childhood stories, themes written for the cooperative school and long, diarylike flight logs. This device does not create as seamless a narrative as in her previous two books, and Emmy's and Teo's voices are often hard to tell apart, but Wein's forceful prose will carry readers past any sense of contrivance. Unforgettable. (Historical fiction. 12 & up)

        COPYRIGHT(2015) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

      • premium: True
      • source: School Library Journal
      • content:

        Starred review from March 1, 2015

        Gr 8 Up-In her latest World War II-era novel, Wein returns to themes of aviation and the enduring bonds of platonic love and friendship. Best friends Rhoda, a white Quaker, and African American Delia were "barnstorming" pilots, a team who performed in air shows across the United States as White Raven and Black Dove, their children, Emilia and Teo, in tow. When Delia is killed in a plane crash, Rhoda commits to fulfilling Delia's dream for Teo-to live in a land where he wouldn't be judged by the color of his skin-and moves them all to Ethiopia, where Teo's father was born. Life on the coffee farm at Tazma Meda is wonderful, especially since Rhoda is teaching the children to fly, but rumors of invasion by Italy become reality, and bureaucratic snafus mean that the family can't leave the country. Then the war becomes even more personal when all young men of Ethiopian heritage are conscripted. Wein continues to present multidimensional characters within her effortless prose. VERDICT Highly recommended for all libraries, especially where her previous titles have flown off the shelves.-Stephanie Klose, School Library Journal

        Copyright 2015 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

      • premium: True
      • source: Booklist
      • content:

        Starred review from March 15, 2015
        Grades 8-11 *Starred Review* A good piece of historical fiction is a taut balancing act, and Wein walks a high-wire in her latest. Deftly weaving in details about the Italo-Ethiopian War in 1935, she traces the stunning story of Teo and Emilia, not related by blood but as good as brother and sister, who came to live in Ethiopia in 1930, just as tensions begin to build between the free African nation and the Italians occupying neighboring Eritrea and Somaliland. Told through their essays, journal entries, flight logs, and a series of adventure stories they authored together, Em and Teo's story is presented as an entreaty to the emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie, in a brazen attempt (helped along by Em's gift of a stolen Italian plane) to guarantee their safe departure from the country after the war escalates to dangerous heights. It's a bit of an understatement to say that Teo and Em had an unconventional childhood. They grew up on the road in the U.S. with their inseparable mothers, African American Delia and white Rhoda, who performed a high-flying daredevil act as Black Dove and White Raven. The barnstorming foursome is mostly content, but Delia and Teo, whose late father was Ethiopian, face prejudice in America and long for life in Ethiopia, where Teo can be treated with respect and even honor. Moving to Africa is a long, complicated process, but it becomes even more complicated when Delia is killed in an accident. Rhoda, utterly heartbroken by her flying partner's death, is left to raise Teo and Em, whose Italian father is stationed in East Africa, on her own, but she still holds tight to Delia's dream, determined to bring Em and Teo to Ethiopia to prove Delia's idea is a good one. And at first, it is. In their new home at Beehive Hill Farm, a cooperative coffee plantation, Teo and Em have a stable community, go to school, and write extensively, from essays recounting their experiences to comics-inspired, high-flying adventure stories starring their fictional personas, Black Dove (Teo), who can render himself invisible, and White Raven (Em), who is a master of disguise and derring-do. But the fantasy of their adventure stories can't hold water forever, and their romantic vision starts to crack. Ethiopia is certainly better for Teo, who is not threatened with violence or prejudice because of the color of his skin, but it's not an easy place for outspoken Em, since it was a lot harder being a girl in Ethiopia than it was in Pennsylvania. And though they find an easy home at Beehive Hill, elsewhere in the country they're ferenji, or foreign. But nothing is as destructive, of course, as the growing threat of Italian invasion and Haile Selassie's conscription of all Ethiopian men, which puts Teo, who is Ethiopian by birth, in real danger. War really comes home to Teo and Em when Rhoda starts teaching the teens to fly on their own. After Delia's death, Rhoda swore that Teo and Em would never pilot planes, but to protect Teo, she changes her tune: Ethiopia's troops, armed with spears and machetes, were hopelessly unprepared for the Italian air force, and a pilot's license means Teo would never face ground combat. As the war builds to a frightening crescendo, Wein truly demonstrates her masterful hand. While subtly remarking on the politics of the conflict and touching on key historical events, she keeps the narrative firmly grounded in Teo and Em's experiences, in particular their growing anger not only over the Italian invasion but the dream their mothers got so wrong. Em and Teo are beautifully well-rounded characters, and the confessional quality of the writing is the perfect vehicle for their complex, changing feelings about...

      • premium: True
      • source: The Horn Book
      • content:

        May 1, 2015
        Wein's newest novel, set in Ethiopia in the mid-1930s, is in good company with her much-lauded Code Name Verity (rev. 5/12) and Rose Under Fire (rev. 11/13). Em (white) and Teo (black) have grown up together, their mothers American stunt-pilots who met after World War I. After Teo's mother Delia dies in a crash, Em's mother moves the family to Ethiopia -- in part, to fulfill Delia's dream for her son to live in the land of his father, where his skin color won't bring discrimination. Em and Teo love Ethiopia and the cooperative coffee farm where Momma works as nurse and pilot; but when Mussolini's Italian military moves to take over the country, their own skills as pilots come into play in ways they -- and the reader -- could never have anticipated. Wein elegantly weaves a complexity of political and cultural understanding into her plot and characters; she provides adventure and intrigue, surprising turns of plot (and flight), sober historical foundation, and two affecting protagonists. The intellectual, psychological, and emotional substance of this story is formidable, and Wein makes it all approachable and engaging. deirdre f. baker

        (Copyright 2015 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)

      • premium: True
      • source: The Horn Book
      • content:

        July 1, 2015
        Em (white) and Teo (black) have grown up together, their mothers American stunt-pilots who met after WWI. After Teo's mother dies, Em's mother moves them to Ethiopia. Em's and Teo's own skills as pilots come into play in surprising ways when Mussolini invades Ethiopia. Wein weaves a complexity of political and cultural understanding into her plot and affecting characters.

        (Copyright 2015 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)

popularity
252
links
    • self:
        • href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BWwAAAA2I/products/3ca5788d-6438-449b-9528-19a319865da3/metadata
        • type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
id
3ca5788d-6438-449b-9528-19a319865da3
starRating
4.1
images
    • cover:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/2508-1/{3CA5788D-6438-449B-9528-19A319865DA3}Img100.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • thumbnail:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/2508-1/{3CA5788D-6438-449B-9528-19A319865DA3}Img200.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover150Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/2508-1/3CA/578/8D/{3CA5788D-6438-449B-9528-19A319865DA3}Img150.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover300Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/2508-1/3CA/578/8D/{3CA5788D-6438-449B-9528-19A319865DA3}Img400.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
isPublicPerformanceAllowed
False
languages
      • code: en
      • name: English
subjects
      • value: Travel Literature
      • value: Historical Fiction
      • value: Young Adult Fiction
publishDateText
03/31/2015
otherFormatIdentifiers
      • type: ISBN
      • value: 9781423183105
mediaType
eBook
shortDescription
Don’t miss Elizabeth Wein’s stunning new novel, Stateless
Emilia and Teo's lives changed in a fiery, terrifying instant when a bird strike brought down the plane their stunt pilot mothers were flying. Teo's mother died immediately, but Em's survived, determined to raise Teo according to his late mother's wishes-in a place where he won't be discriminated against because of the color of his skin. But in 1930s America, a white woman raising a black adoptive son alongside a white daughter is too often seen as a threat.
Seeking a home where her children won't be held back by ethnicity or gender, Rhoda brings Em and Teo to Ethiopia, and all three fall in love with the beautiful, peaceful country. But that peace is shattered by the threat of war with Italy, and teenage Em and Teo are drawn into the conflict. Will their devotion to their country, its culture and people, and each other be their downfall or their...
sortTitle
Black Dove White Raven
lexileScore
900
crossRefId
2247932
publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers