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It is a summer that will change everything . . . .
NaTasha has a wonderful life in affluent Park Adams. She fits in, she has friends, and she's a member of the all-white ballet troupe. Being nearly the only African American in her school doesn't bother NaTasha. But it bothers Tilly, NaTasha's spitfire grandmother from Harlem, who decides NaTasha needs to get back to her roots or her granddaughter is in danger of losing herself completely. Tilly whisks NaTasha away to a world where all of a sudden nothing in NaTasha's life makes any sense: Harlem and Comfort Zone in the Bronx, a crisis center where (cont'd)
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Ebony Joy Wilkins was called worse names in high school than "sellout", but the word did inspire her first novel for young adults. Ebony lives in Chicago, Illinois. Visit her online at www.ebonyjoywilkins.com.
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Gr 7-10–This warm if message-heavy novel about race, fitting in, and finding oneself stars high school freshman NaTasha, an insecure African American who attends a snooty white school in suburban New Jersey. Wanting to maintain her popularity with her white friends, particularly Heather, NaTasha painstakingly irons her hair and forces herself to learn ballet. NaTasha spends the summer in Harlem with her grandmother, Tilly, who volunteers at a crisis center in the Bronx. Initially, Tash feels she has little in common with these rough girls whose struggles include addiction, abuse, self-destructive behavior, pregnancy, and prison. They are nasty to NaTasha, considering her a snobby “sellout.” At the center of the story is Tilly, a strong, opinionated community pillar whose loving but firm influence inspires her granddaughter even as NaTasha struggles to make sense of the Amber's Place girls' hostility, Heather's betrayals, and the attentions of two intriguing neighbor boys. Some elements of the story tie up too easily–NaTasha's greatest tormentors warm up to her a bit too quickly to be believed–but the message of staying true to oneself shines through.Megan Honig, New York Public Library
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- PublisherScholastic Press
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0545109280
- ISBN 13 9780545109284
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages272
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