ANOTHER CLASSIC BY BEST SELLING AUTHOR WHO GAVE YOU MISS WHITE!

Glasses wearing genius savant just wants to survive another day in a brutal Foster Care home, go to school, and she finds help in the school janitor who has a shady past.

Similar to FINDING FORRESTER but with a teen girl and she has an old white janitor as a mentor.

Sandy Doe is a brilliant 15-year-old black girl who is living in a foster home with five other mixed race kids who all bully her to the point where she runs away and hides in the janitors closet at her local school. Here she finds her mentor who is a convicted felon but also a Pulitzer prize winning war journalist who suffers from all of the years of war and prison time and yep, he is a heavy drinker who takes Delvis under his wing to help save her from a similar fate as his.

She goes home to much ridicule and discipline but has hope now that she has someone fighting in her corner for her. Later, a beautiful rich family wants to adopt her, but is blocked by the evil foster family because of jealousy. From here Sandy must work her way out by winning the national junior journalist competition with the help of Dan the janitor. From here she must overcome many obstacles and internal fears or be stuck in her abusive situation till she becomes an adult which equals a terrible prison sentence.

Will she overcome?

Win the competition?

Get adopted?