Not So Princess Jasmine Book

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About the book:

It’s 2020. Surrounding the news of her best friend DeShaun being shot, 11-year-old Jasmine is learning what it means to live in a Black body in St. Louis, Missouri — which some consider to be a microcosm of the United States and the epicenter of a new Civil Rights movement.

Jasmine struggles with being called names and picked on within her private school by her nemesis, Jacob Taylor. She unwittingly lets her friend Tiffany know. Tiffany is a fighter who comes from a complicated past that leads her to Jacob’s home in the suburbs of St. Louis and a sticky situation.

The rigors of classical dance fare Jasmine no better. She’s forced to choose whether an injury will cause her to become addicted to pain pills or if she can rise to the occasion naturally by rehabilitating her own wounds. All Jasmine wants is to dance and be free, but in 2020- something America, that task can be harder than it seems for a young Black woman.