Readers will be moved by the contemporary story that makes the outsider a person. Pinkney is candid about the pain and loss as well as the achievement, and the docunovel is enlivened by characters drawn with warmth and wit. The difference here is that the whole family has moved to the white suburbs, and underlying Dee's struggle is the model of her father: his determination as a child, the harassment he still receives as a company executive from a white security guard, and the firm way he deals with it. As Jacqueline Woodson does in Maizon at Blue Hill (1992), Pinkney dramatizes the conflict of a smart, determined black girl who finds herself suddenly the other. Was Dee's family wrong to leave their Baltimore city neighborhood when Dee's father landed a big new job? Will Dee fit in better if she acts white? The answers are loud and clear: acting white gets you nowhere show them that you won't take disrespect "stand proud" and show everybody what you've got read the best black writers. The white kids are wary some are hostile. Deirdre ("Dee") Willis is uncomfortable as the only black student in her suburban middle school.
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