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128 pp.
| Kids Can |
January, 1998 |
TradeISBN 1-55074-411-9
(3)
YA
The summer before thirteen-year-old Roxanne enters high school is a difficult and confusing one. There's an incident with the class bully that her parents are afraid may become a racial incident since they're one of the few black families in Calgary; brother Joel runs away; and Roxanne finds herself preoccupied by a budding romance. Strong characters and believable situations help create a realistic story of a loving but fractured family overcoming problems.