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School Library Journal
Reviewed on August 1, 2015 | Young Adult
Gr 6 Up—Michelle, an 17-year-old biracial teen, is almost through with high school in urban Baltimore. This is a blessing and a curse because school has been a reprieve from caring for her younger siblings when their mother, an addict, fails to adequately care for them. Her father is no longer a part of their lives, having left them for another woman and his child with her. They know that they have a half-sister but know little about her. Right after her mother is arrested on a drug ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2015
With their drug-addicted mother back in jail, seventeen-year-old Michelle tends to her early-teen-surly, diabetic sister Cass and sweet but disrup...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
