An ALA Best Book for Young Adults 2001 Shayla Dubois lives in a Houston neighborhood known as the Bottom, where life is colorful but never easy. She wants only

Shayla lives with her mother and her teenage sister, Tia, in a poor, rough area of Houston. While Tia, to her mother's distress, has taken up with a local boy w

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