Outrunning the Darkness

Sereeta Prince is a honey skinned beauty with glossy black curls making little halos around her face. Jaris Spain has been in love with her since junior high. Now his feelings are growing even stronger. But she seems to look right through him like he is made of plastic wraps. Between his father's pessimistic moods and his mother's "put on a happy face " attitude, Jaris Spain feels trapped. He hides his darkness from his own parents: how he struggles to earn good grades, how he tries out for every sport at Tubman and fails. And then there is Sereeta's scorn.

Author: Anne Schraff

Published: 2010

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