After Tupac and D Foster
By Jacqueline Woodson*
The powerful and sustaining bonds of friendship, family and community are explored in this story of three 11-year-old girls living in a close-knit African-American neighborhood in Queens, New York, as they experience various changes in their lives as they move from childhood to adolescence.
Putnam, 2008. ISBN: 9780399246548
Special thanks to the
American Library Association for their recommendations.
*2009 list addition