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Afraid that she will have no where to go when her welfare checks are stopped, nineteen-year-old high school dropout Aisha tries to figure out how she can support herself and her two young children in New York City.
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5 editions- Other · English · 2006Tandem Library · 9781417699414
- Other · English · 2006Farrar Straus and Giroux · 134 pages · 9780374411831
- Other · English · 2004Collins · 151 pages · 9780007163489
- Other · English · 2003Thorndike Press · 165 pages · 9780786255023
- Other · English · 2002Frances Foster Books, Farrar Straus Giroux · 134 pages · 9780374399580
Public welfareMothers and daughtersJuvenile fictionAfrican AmericansTeenage mothersFictionChildren's fictionAdventure and adventurers, fiction