Yolanda is a great big girl and strong for her age, bigger and stronger and smarter than anyone else in the fifth grade.
And Andre.
She moves them all to a smaller and, she hopes, smaller town.
Yolanda, at first, is scornful of her new town.
But their mother, a legal professional and a widow, is concerned about crime and drugs in her children\'s Chicago school.
It\'s easy for her to watch out for her little, first-grade brother, Andrew.
She is cool and streetwise, too, and afraid of no one.
Yolanda is a great big girl and strong for her age, bigger and stronger and smarter than anyone else in the fifth grade