Have you ever had a role model or wished you could be someone else who had something you didn't? Later, you figure something that makes you not want to be that person and your glad to be yourself. This is what this book is mostly about. It's about a girl named Tracey Ellison growing up in Philadelphia. She starts off with both parents living in the home, at the beginning of this book it focuses on them. Their relationship isn't so happy. Tracey's parents are thinking about divoring, but then decided to separate for a while. Tracey was left without a father, but it doesn't affect her because she is too young. Later in the book a lot happens when she turned thirteen years old first her mother gets pregnant with her little brother Jason. Tracey believes in her next- door neighbor's Mercedes Raheema's sister whom she is...