Title: Standing against the wind
Description: As she tries to escape her poor Chicago neighborhood by winning a scholarship to a prestigious boarding school, shy and studious eighth-grader Patrice discovers that she has more options in life than she previously realized.
Subjects: Self-confidence, Family problems, Fiction, Schools, Conduct of life, African Americans, City and town life, Juvenile fiction, African American teenage girls, Families, 1000blackgirlbooks, Children's fiction, Self-confidence, fiction, Conduct of life, fiction, Family life, fiction, African americans, fiction, Schools, fiction