![]() ![]() "Because we want them to thrive," Marla always says. ![]() Their grandparents, former potato farmers Gottfried and Marla Hemmings, managed to trade digging spuds for developing subdivisions and now they sit atop a million-dollar bank account-wealth they've refused to pass on to their adult children or their five teenage grandchildren. It's a ticket." Five estranged cousins are lost in a maze of their family's tangled secrets. will speak profoundly to a generation of young people who are waking up to the societal sins of the past and working toward a more equitable future."-Horn Book, starred review "I've never understood white people who can't admit they're white. Printz Medal ★"King's narrative concerns are racism, patriarchy, colonialism, white privilege, and the ingrained systems that perpetuate them. ![]()
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