The Long Ride Cover:Hardcover Cecil is anxious about making

Cecil is anxious about making friends because he doesn't know where he'll fit in

and transgender people

As Charlie remembers Benjamin

who raised four kids alone in an era when single Black mothers were demonized as “welfare queens”

The Long Ride Cover:Hardcover Cecil is anxious about makingIn the tumult of 1970s New York City, seventh graders are bussed from their neighborhood in Queens to integrate a new school in South Jamaica. Jamila Clarke. Josie Rivera. Francesca George. Three mixed race girls, close friends whose immigrant parents worked hard to settle their families in a neighborhood with the best schools. The three girls are outsiders there, but they have each other. Now, at the start seventh grade, they are told they will be