num_pages: 384
description: Twelve-year-old Shayla is allergic to trouble. All she wants to do is to follow the rules. (Oh and shed 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 its like all the rules have changed. Now shes suddenly questioning who her best friends are and some people at school are saying shes not black enough. Wait what?Shays sister Hana is involved in Black Lives Matter but Shay doesn't think that's for her. After experiencing a powerful protest though Shay decides some rules are worth breaking. She starts wearing an armband to school in support of the Black Lives movement. Soon everyone is taking sides. And she is given an ultimatum.Shay is scared to do the wrong thing (and even more scared to do the right thing) but if she doesn't face her fear she'll be forever tripping over the next hurdle. Now thats trouble for real.
language: English
title: A Good Kind of Trouble
publisher: Balzer + Bray