Title: Outrunning the Darkness
Description: Between his father’s pessimistic attitude and his mother’s “put on a happy face” attitude, Jaris Spain feels trapped. Jaris hides his darkness from his own parents: how hard he has to work for good grades, how a teacher’s pen stroke sends him slipping, how he tries out for every sport at Tubman and fails. And then there is Sereeta’s scorn.
Subjects: Families, High school students, Fiction, Auditions, Acting, High schools, African Americans, Self-esteem, Family life, Children's fiction, African americans, fiction, Students, fiction, Schools, fiction, Acting, fiction, Self-esteem, fiction, Family, fiction
Places: Tubman High School
People: Jaris Spain, Sereeta Prince