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Our Friendship Matters
by Kimberley B. Jones
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GENRE: Young Adult
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BLURB:
Leah
and Sasha are 17-year-old friends who had been close to one another since
elementary school, but as the summer approaches they find their friendship
tested in ways they never anticipated.
Following
graduation, Sasha’s privileged life and perception of the world around her is
suddenly altered when an old childhood friend persuades her to join in a
campaign against an injustice after his best friend is killed by a cop.
But
joining the protest has unforeseen consequences for Sasha, distancing her from
Leah, who becomes jealous of Sasha’s new friends and finds herself on the
opposing side, protesting alongside her group of new white friends.
As the tension mounts between the two bitterly
opposed factions, a tragedy strikes and threatens to make Sasha and Leah
enemies. Can they find a way to resolve their differences, putting them to the
side and learn to accept each other’s viewpoints? Or is their long friendship
finished for good?
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EXCERPT:
On
my way to Ricardo’s, the same cop pulled up beside me again patrolling the
area. He stopped and got out the car. My stomach began to flutter, especially
after knowing what happened to Mitchell. What if something happened to me? I
was out there by myself with no one to witness anything. My heart was about to
bust out of my chest. Was this police officer harassing me?
“Hello,
Officer. Is everything all right?” I rolled my eyes because there must have
been a reason that he kept coming into the Baldwin area.
“We
just got another call about some kids vandalizing the Frontenac area again. Do
you know anything about that?” The police officer leaned over his car while his
eyes ran from my head to my feet. He pulled out a piece of chewing gum and
started chewing it, obnoxiously smacking in every corner of his mouth.
Yes,
he was scaring me. Did I look like I knew anything about some kids vandalizing
that area? That was the moment that I realized that I had been profiled. I decided
to just stay calm and answer whatever he asked, giving him no reason to hurt
me. Dad told us if a police officer ever asked for something, always be polite
and give them what they needed. At that moment, it was clear why he had that
talk with us.
“No,
sir, I’m just walking to my friend’s house. I stay in the house right there,” I
pointed. “Can I ask you a question, sir? You asked me that question twice now.
Are there some kids in this neighborhood doing the vandalism?”
“Yes,
the kids that have been reported are from this area. What school do you
attend?”
“I
just graduated from Chester Christian Academy.”
I
hoped that if I told him where I lived and that I had attended a good school,
he would leave me alone.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Kimberley is
a professional early childhood educator. She was born in the small town of
Saint George, South Carolina, on September 12, 1982. Graduated from Woodland
High School in 2000, Benedict College in 2004 with B.S., Child & Family
Development, and from Ashford University in 2013 with a Masters in Early
Childhood Education.
After
receiving her education and being a military spouse, she held several jobs as a
preschool teacher and a preschool director, but she wanted to her education to
use by writing children’s books. She wrote her first book in college for her
children’s literature course. She has self-published several children books on
Amazon.
Currently,
she is branching off into writing fiction YA, NA, and A novels on issues in
society. She loves writing and would not change it for nothing in this world
She is now published by Rhetoric Askew. Kimberley is the author of Our
Friendship Matters.
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