And Teesha learns that charity can hit a little too close to home when she signs on to help with a local food drive. All of these stories contain powerful hooks that will reel you all the way in and keep you on the line until the very last page. Short, but completely satisfying. Not surprisingly, the working class folk are sticking with Scrub, while the upper crusty set are wrangling for the name change. The class division has trickled down into the high school, where the students are also arguing over the name issue.
Readers discover that labels and stereotypes really have nothing to do with the actual person.
There's O'Neill, who seems like a typical anti-social loner, but who's really a complex person with a pretty complex secret. Popular, run-everything Gretchen decides that maybe it's NOT all about wearing the right clothes and dating the star football player. Middle class Nelson thinks that just because he's black, he has something in common with Shaquanda, but he couldn't be more wrong. A really original read that I haven't been able to get out of my head, and I hope you will invite into yours. These ten stories are about what life is like in the Harlem neighborhood of 145th Street.