Author: Nikki Grimes
Narrator: Allyson Johnson
Unabridged: 2 hr 5 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: 03/06/2018
Genre: Children & Young Adults Fiction - People & Places - United States - African American
Jazmin Shelby was "born with clenched fists"-which is okay, since she's got a lot of fighting ahead of her. Her dad died a couple of years back, and now that her mom's in the hospital, it's just her and her big sister, CeCe. But that's fine by Jazmin. She's got her friends, her school, lots of big plans for the future-and a zest for life and laughter that's impossible to resist.
A Coretta Scott King Honor Book
A Booklist Editors' Choice Book
A Child Study Children's Book Committee Children's Book of the Year
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