Contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Notice
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraphs
  5. Part I: SPRING
  6. Tumbleweeds
  7. In Broken Arrow Oklahoma
  8. Family Names
  9. Time Passes on the Road
  10. Somewhere in Texas
  11. I Have a Secret
  12. She
  13. Classical Music
  14. As We Drive Through the Red Desert
  15. Are We There Yet?!
  16. My New Room
  17. First Impressions
  18. Boxes
  19. How It All Began
  20. El Rio Charter Academy
  21. 20 Questions
  22. After School
  23. Little House on the Prairie
  24. 6th Grade War Games
  25. Improvising
  26. Imagining Mama as a Girl
  27. After Breakfast
  28. Dictionary
  29. Back to School
  30. Letters from Lena
  31. In the Locker Room
  32. Blackmail
  33. I Do Have a Crush
  34. There Are Terrible Songs in Me
  35. I Start to Question
  36. Saturday April 16th
  37. The Friday Mixer
  38. Questions I Have for Black Girls Like Me
  39. Maps
  40. The Short Drive Home
  41. Questions for HER
  42. Betrayed
  43. Sisters
  44. The Georgia Belles
  45. Our Bodies Ourselves
  46. Top Secret
  47. Chicks
  48. New Routines
  49. Questions I Have for Black Girls Like Me posted April 25th
  50. Homeschool Group
  51. We Spend the Next Two Days Cleaning
  52. Tangled
  53. Huckleberry Finn
  54. Hot Springs
  55. Moonlight Sonata
  56. Insomnia (noun)
  57. Part II: SUMMER
  58. June in the Desert
  59. Sweet Tomato
  60. My Bike
  61. Happy Birthday America
  62. Girl Scouts
  63. Questions I Have for Black Girls Like Me posted July 5th
  64. In This House We Believe
  65. Melody Icey
  66. Never Forget
  67. The Boy Book
  68. Fireball
  69. Upside Down
  70. Questions I Have for Black Girls Like Me posted July 12th
  71. Fire
  72. “DO YOU LOVE IT? I LOVE IT! I GOT IT AT ROSS!”
  73. Questions I Have for Black Girls Like Me posted July 17th
  74. Flying
  75. Boulder
  76. After
  77. The River
  78. Needles & Yarn
  79. No More Sweatpants and Frumpy Shirts
  80. Safe
  81. Practice Makes Perfect
  82. Exploring
  83. A Girlhood Is a Terrible-Wonderful Time
  84. Fun Fun Fun
  85. Independent Women
  86. Even the Aspen Trees
  87. Suicide (noun)
  88. Aunt Sarah
  89. Reunion
  90. Psychiatric Evaluation (noun)
  91. Blessings
  92. It’s a Hard-Knock Life
  93. Small
  94. Part III: FALL
  95. Labor Day Weekend
  96. Mother (noun)
  97. A Gloomy Sunday
  98. Bad Jokes
  99. Brightree Clinic and Retreat
  100. Hereditary (adjective)
  101. Showing
  102. Inheritance
  103. Reset
  104. I Have a Secret Wish
  105. New Faces
  106. Lists
  107. Telling
  108. Imagining Lady Day’s Return
  109. Chances
  110. State Capitol
  111. Questions I Have for Black Girls Like Me posted October 17th
  112. Questions I Have for Black Girls Like Me posted October 19th
  113. Kin (noun)
  114. Family Fridays
  115. Mama Is in the Earth
  116. Lessons
  117. Flung
  118. What I Know
  119. Acknowledgments
  120. About the Author
  121. Copyright