A Newbery Honor BookJacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young Peoples LiteratureThe day D Foster enters Neeka and her best friends 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 Shakurs rap music, D is the one who truly understands the place where hes coming from, and through knowing D, Tupacs lyrics become more personal for all of them.The girls are thirteen when Ds mom swoops in to reclaim Dand 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.

 

 

This book is part of a book series called Playaway Young Adult .

This book is aimed at children at US 5th grade+.

This book has been graded for interest at 10 years.

There are 160 pages in this book. This book was published in 2008 by Nancy Paulsen Books .

Jacqueline Woodson was born in Ohio and grew up in South Carolina. She has written several books for teenagers and recently won the Coretta Scott King Award which honours African-American writers of outstanding books for children. She has received two American Library Association Awards, and the Kenyon Review Award for Literary Excellence in Fiction for Autobiography Of A Family Photo, published by Penguin US. Jacqueline now lives in Brooklyn, New York.