Tyrell Juvenile Fiction Family - Siblings Social Themes - Friendship Fantasy Scales is tasked with finding

Scales is tasked with finding the cause—and putting an end to it by any means necessary

and she's nothing but a pest to her older brother Fofana

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who uses it to gain quicker access to her family's sorghum field and to the market

She’s never gotten the benefit of the doubt—not from her mother or the aunties who watch her like a hawk

Tyrell Juvenile Fiction Family - Siblings Social Themes - Friendship Fantasy Scales is tasked with findingAn astonishing new voice in teen literature, writing what is sure to be one of the most talked about debuts of the year. Tyrell is a young African American teen who can't get a break. He's living (for now) with his spaced out mother and little brother in a homeless shelter. His father's in jail. His girlfriend supports him, but he doesn't feel good enough for her and seems to be always on the verge of doing the wrong thing around her. There's another