Awards and Honors<i>CCBC Choices</i> 2019 Choice: Fiction for Children <br>
CSMCL Best Books - 2018 <br>
<i>Kirkus</i> Best Books, Middle-Grade - 2018 <br>
NYPL Best Books for Kids - 2018
Detroit, 1945: eleven-year-old Betty's house doesn't quite feel like home. She believes her mother loves her, but she can't shake the feeling that her mother doesn't want her. Photograph of Betty Shabazz. Author’s note. Note about Detroit in the 1940s. Note about Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Information about the main characters in the book. Time line.