Summary: Twelve-year-old Shayla is allergic to trouble. All she wants to do is follow the rules (Oh, and she'd also like to make it through seventh grade with her best friendships intact, learn to run track, and have a cute boy see past her giant forehead).
But in junior high, it's like all the rules have changed. Now she's suddenly questioning who her best friends are and some people at school are saying she's not black enough. Wait, what?
Shay's sister, Hana, is involved with Black Lives Matter, but Shay doesn't think that's for her. After experiencing a powerful protest, though, Shay decides some rulesare worth breaking. She starts wearing an armband to school in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. Soon everyone is taking sides. And she is given an ultimatum. (from amazon.com)
Where can I find it?: Boston Public Library: Adams Street, Brighton, Charlestown, Codman Square, Connolly, Egleston Square, Faneuil, Fields Corner, Grove Hall, Honan-Allston, Jamaica Plain, Lower Mills, Roslindale, Roxbury, and West End branches, or as an ebook at https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C3939970 or https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C13643794
Tags: African American girls; Black lives matter movement; Children's stories; Fiction; Identity (Psychology); Juvenile works; Middle schools; Racism; Sisters; Social problem fiction