In 1976 Pennsylvania, middle-schooler Charmaine Upshaw contemplates a career as a model or actress while coping with boyfriend problems and the return of her uncle, a fugitive who cost her family $1,000 in bail money a year earlier.
year: 2009
call number/section: 1000
subjects: schools, fiction, family life, african americans, interpersonal relations, middle schools, pennsylvania, history, 20th century, fiction