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The Black Girls Left Standing

by Juliana Goodman

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"Sixteen-year-old Beau Willet has dreams of being an artist and one day leaving the Chicago projects she's grown up in. But after her older sister, Katia, is killed by an off-duty police officer, Beau knows she has to clear her sister's name by finding the only witness to the murder -- Katia's no-good boyfriend, Jordan, who has gone missing. If she doesn't find him and tell the world what really happened, Katia's death will be ignored, like the deaths of so many other Black women who are wrongfully killed. With the help of her friend, Sonnet, Beau sets up a Twitter account to gather anonymous tips. But the more that Beau finds out about her sister's death, the more danger she finds herself in. And with a new relationship developing with her childhood friend, Champion, and the struggle to keep her family together, Beau is soon in way over her head. How much is she willing to risk to clear her sister's name and make sure she's not forgotten?"--Dust jacket.… (more)
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audiobook teen fiction - a 16 y.o. Black art student at a mostly-white public high school in Chicago seeks out answers after her pharmacy-track older sister was shot by a white police officer, but the local gang doesn't want her to stir up trouble and her school suspends her (unfairly) after the police portray her dead sister as a cocaine dealer.

I have no experience with Beau's Grady Park neighborhood, but I loved that her character and her friends and neighbors got to have a voice in this book, and I loved the solidity of Beau's friendships --no matter what any of them were going through, or how dangerous their situations, these girls had each others' backs except maybe Dasia?. At a time where everything seems to be stacked against girls like Beau, these relationships are a needed source of strength. I know I'm not the only one that this debut novel has made a strong impression on, because my local library is actively promoting it on its physical and digital shelves. ( )
  reader1009 | Sep 26, 2022 |
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"Sixteen-year-old Beau Willet has dreams of being an artist and one day leaving the Chicago projects she's grown up in. But after her older sister, Katia, is killed by an off-duty police officer, Beau knows she has to clear her sister's name by finding the only witness to the murder -- Katia's no-good boyfriend, Jordan, who has gone missing. If she doesn't find him and tell the world what really happened, Katia's death will be ignored, like the deaths of so many other Black women who are wrongfully killed. With the help of her friend, Sonnet, Beau sets up a Twitter account to gather anonymous tips. But the more that Beau finds out about her sister's death, the more danger she finds herself in. And with a new relationship developing with her childhood friend, Champion, and the struggle to keep her family together, Beau is soon in way over her head. How much is she willing to risk to clear her sister's name and make sure she's not forgotten?"--Dust jacket.

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