After her mother is sent to jail, eighth-grader Patrice Williams moves to Chicago to live with her aunt Mae where she attends a school filled with gangs and drug runners, applies for a scholarship to a prestigious boarding school, and learns there is hope for her future.
year: 2006, 2010
call number/section: 1000
subjects: self-confidence, juvenile fiction, conduct of life, family, city and town life, african american teenage girls, fiction, family problems, african americans
Editions
Jones, Traci L
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2006)
After her mother is sent to jail, eighth-grader Patrice Williams moves to Chicago to live with her aunt Mae where she attends a school filled with gangs and drug runners, applies for a scholarship to a prestigious boarding school, and learns there is hope for her future.
Schools: 20
Jones, Traci L
Square Fish (2010)
After her mother is sent to jail, eighth-grader Patrice Williams moves to Chicago to live with her aunt Mae where she attends a school filled with gangs and drug runners, applies for a scholarship to a prestigious boarding school, and learns there is hope for her future.
Schools: 7