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So I just made another note to add to my blue notebook later, when the house had cooled off: Tia's nature is boiling out of her like hot soup out of a pot, and Kambia Elaine just flew in from Neptune.
Shayla Dubois lives in a Houston neighborhood known as the... Read Full Overview

An ALA Best Book for Young Adults 2001 Shayla Dubois lives in a Houston neighborhood known as the Bottom, where life is colorful but never easy. She wants only two things out of life: to become a writer and to have a nice, peaceful home. Instead, her life has been turned upside... Read Full Overview

Shayla Dubois considers herself a reader and a writer, and lately she's put a lot in her notebook. Her sister, Tia, has run away because of their mother's rules. Then there's Shayla's new neighbor, Kambia Elaine, who tells all kinds of fantastic stories.

Shayla Dubois considers herself a reader and a writer, and lately she's put a lot in her notebook. Her sister, Tia, has run away because of their mother's rules. Then there's Shayla's new neighbor, Kambia Elaine, who tells all kinds of fantastic stories.