Description
A rich and memorable story from a Coretta Scott King honor award-winning author about a teenage foster girl looking for a place to call home.
Dess knows that nothing good lasts. Disappointment is never far away, and thatβs a truth that Dess has learned to live with.
Dessβs motherβs most recent arrest is just the latest in a long line of disappointments, but this one lands her with her baby brotherβs foster family. Dess doesnβt exactly fit in with the Carters. Theyβre so happy, so comfortable, so normal, and Hope, their teenage daughter, is so hopelessly naΓ―ve. Dess and Hope couldnβt be more unlike each other, but Austin loves them both like sisters. Over time their differences, insurmountable at first, fall away to reveal two girls who want the same thing: to belong.
Tanita S. Davis, a Coretta Scott King Honor winner, weaves a tale of two modern teenagers defying stereotypes and deciding for themselves what it means to be a family.