Isalene Will is a black girl from the projects on Manhattan's Lower East Side. The summer of her ninth birthday presents her with several intense transitions, one of which is leaving her neighborhood to attend an elite school where she is one of few black students. Divided between two worlds, she digs deep and tests the stability of her roots.
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