![]() ![]() Jade doesn’t want to say yes but she knows she has to. Parker explains that Jade is at risk for “certain things” because of her circumstances, but she makes it clear that Jade will get a scholarship to college if she completes the program. Parker gives Jade a folder for the Woman to Woman mentorship program. She’s believes the meeting is about the service learning study abroad trip, which Jade has wanted to go on since she started at St. At lunch, Jade goes to a meeting with Mrs. ![]() The next morning, Jade notices a young white girl getting off the bus at the same stop. Jade feels like she can only really understand her best friend, Lee Lee. Francis are wealthy, even the black kids. This hasn’t been easy in the past-most students at St. The night before Jade starts her junior year, Mom asks Jade to make a friend this year. ![]() Most people don’t think Jade’s neighborhood is beautiful, but Jade does her best to see its beauty by picking up littered paper scraps and turning them into collages. Francis, a private high school on the other side of town where she has a full scholarship. In some ways, Jade feels like she must leave her neighborhood in order to succeed: she buses out of her North Portland neighborhood every day to attend St.
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