A Newbery Honor Book
Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature
The day D Foster enters Neeka and her best friend’s lives, the world opens up for them. D comes from a world vastly different from their safe Queens neighborhood, and through her, the girls see another side of life that includes loss, foster families and an amount of freedom that makes the girls envious. Although all of them are crazy about Tupac Shakur’s rap music, D is the one who truly understands the place where he’s coming from, and through knowing D, Tupac’s lyrics become more personal for all of them.The girls are thirteen when D’s mom swoops in to reclaim D—and as magically as she appeared, she now disappears from their lives. Tupac is gone, too, after another shooting; this time fatal. As the narrator looks back, she sees lives suspended in time, and realizes that even all-too-brief connections can touch deeply.
- ISBN10 0399246541
- ISBN13 9780399246548
- Publish Date 10 January 2008
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Nancy Paulsen Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 160
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780399246548