![]() The trouble starts with Stevie's arrival at high school, which coincides with the ``black is beautiful'' period (it's 1967). Soon Stevie has had her first period, her first kiss (from sexy Yusef), and is learning that cool is not necessarily kind, for that dog Yusef has his classmates spy while the two show themselves to each other. Stevie's dream is to be popular and cool, and her wish is granted when ``all the way cool'' Carla invites her to a party. Sixth-grader Stevie, meanwhile, is tired of her mother's rules, her refusal to countenance ``black English,'' her attempts to make Stevie a dreaded ``L7'' (square). ![]() Her father is a hospital janitor, her mother is a bank teller, and Grandma owns a popular South Side chicken-stand. ![]() Jean ``Stevie'' Stevenson is a child of the working poor. ![]() From newcomer Sinclair, the coming-of-age story of a black girl in 1960's Chicago. ![]()
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