After her wealthy parents divorce, Shawna returns with her father to the small Georgia town where he grew up, and there she experiences new attitudes toward race relations, learns something shocking about her father's past, and discovers a surprising link with one of the "popular" white girls at school.
A collection of essays and primary and secondary sources that examine the issues and controversy surrounding interracial relationships in the United States.
After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with peoples' reactions.
