White SmokeMarigold is running from ghosts. The phantoms of her old life keep haunting her, but a move with her newly blended family from their small California beach town to the embattled Midwestern city of Cedarville might be the fresh start she needs. Her mom has accepted a new job with the Sterling Foundation that comes with a free house, one that Mari now has to share with her bratty ten year old stepsister, Piper. The renovated picture perfect home on

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a boy who is supposedly her genetic match

and the ever-mounting pressure of misfortune

Fabiola Toussaint thought she would finally find une belle vie--a good life

Miles uncovers a chilling plot

Phoebe shares stories that will make you laugh

His body of work is arguably the most morally significant in cinematic history

one young water protectorTakes a stand to defend Earth's most sacred resource

protecting her from the difficult realities most black people face

Ruth is a former teacher of creative writing with the University of Southern California and June Jordan's Poetry for the People program at UC Berkeley and is a longtime faculty member with the VONA writing program

I want to be everywhere Mama is

southern black community and running away at age sixteen