In 1959, Laura Graham, a white 15-year-old from Detroit, moves to rural west Kentucky and enrolls in a recently desegregated high school. Shocked by the mistreatment her black classmates endure she finally speaks out, only to learn how little she truly understands about black lives in twentieth-century America. Told with heart and touches of humor, this fast-paced YA novel is well grounded in history and in the author's personal experience.