14 year-old Sophy is a gifted dancer, as was her sister, Nicole before she developed schizophrenia. Focu sing on relationships rather than on symptoms and treatments , Johnson demonstrates the pervasive effects of mental illne ss on an entire family. '

 

This book is part of a book series called Black Apples .

There are 128 pages in this book. This book was published 1996 by Hachette Children's Group .

Angela Johnson was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, but raised in Windham, Ohio; the only girl in a family of five. She now lives in Northeastern Ohio in a hundred year old house full of plants. When not writing she travels. On one of her trips to the California desert the inspiration for her first novel, Toning the Sweep came about.