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Off-Color

Janet McDonald
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Pages
176
Year
2007
Language
English
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

About

Spunky and headstrong, Cameron blasts music, challenges adults, and cuts class when she feels like it. She lives with her single mom in Brooklyn and hangs out with best friends Amanda, P, and Crystal. Life in their working-class neighborhood is pretty cool until Cameron's mother suddenly loses her job and can no longer afford the rent. Move to public housing? YG2BK! But no one's kidding, and Cameron finds herself living in the projects. Can a white girl from across town hope to be accepted by the black girls in the projects? A revelation from the past forces Cameron to confront a startling truth that just might put things in perspective... that is, if Cameron can handle it.

Hilarious, surprising, and defiantly candid, Off-Color is a thought-provoking and thoroughly entertaining new novel from Janet McDonald. Hip and wise, the author grabs the readers and doesn't let go.

Related Subjects

  • Urban & Street Lit
  • Young Adult Fiction
  • Prejudice & Racism
  • Social Themes
  • Poverty & Homelessness
  • City & Town Life
  • Lifestyles

Extended Details

  • EditionFirst Edition
  • Lexile760L

Reviews

"Readers will enjoy Cameron's attitudem which, despite her roller-coaster moments of anger and sadness, is relentlessly upbeat as she explores what it means to be black--and white."
The Chicago Tribune
"McDonald dramatizes the big issues from the inside, showing the hard times and the joy in fast-talking dialogue that is honest, insulting, angry, and very funny."
Starred, Booklist
"McDonald weaves in a variety of sources, from Othello to modern celebrities like Mariah Carey, as Cameron launches into a series of unusually believable discussions about race...[that] will surely get readers thinking as well."
Publishers Weekly

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