After her policeman father testifies against a fellow officer, Toswiah Green and her family are forced to change identities and move to a new city. Now Toswiah is Evie Thomas, wondering who she is and how she can make her future as bright as her past once was.

 

There are 192 pages in this book. This book was published 2004 by Penguin Books Ltd .

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.