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Black: Triple Crown Publications Presents

by Tracy Brown (Goodreads Author)

4.37 of 5 stars 4.37 · rating details · 475 ratings · 19 reviews

Who said the streets don't love nobody? Black is the novel that shatters the myth.

Kaia didn't choose the streets. The streets chose her. Tossed from a broken home, Kaia is forced to learn the hard way just how grimy street life can be.

Shedding her innocence, Kaia, overnight it seems, goes from being an often overlooked, stepped upon and crushed little girl, to a woman.

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Paperback, 246 pages

Published January 1st 2003 by Vickie Stringer

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Jan 12, 2012 Chantelmdavis rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The book Black by Tracy Brown was a great. I would tell all my friends to read it because it taught me a lot. This book taught me that you have to keep your friends close; because you don’t know when they will turn on you. I also learn that I should be grateful for me and my mother relationship because in this book the character and her mother relationship aren’t happy at all.
Kaia was a smart young lady she only cared about school. Kaia was an A+ student in high school she wasn’t someone that...more The book Black by Tracy Brown was a great. I would tell all my friends to read it because it taught me a lot. This book taught me that you have to keep your friends close; because you don’t know when they will turn on you. I also learn that I should be grateful for me and my mother relationship because in this book the character and her mother relationship aren’t happy at all.
Kaia was a smart young lady she only cared about school. Kaia was an A+ student in high school she wasn’t someone that surrounded herself with drama. Kaia’s mom was jealous of her cause her father pay more attention to her. Her moms always call her out of her name but loved her two sister’s more. They always left the house because the father would come home drunk, and always yelling at each other. Kaia mom had stabbed her father in the chest. Kaia and her mother was the only one in the house when this happen. Janice Kaia’s mother told her if she told anyone that she would kill her too. After that day her mother never talks to her or ask her about her day in school.
Kaia had friend’s names Symphany, Talia and Giselle that she hangs out with. There a boy named Aaron who she didn’t give a time or day to because she thought he was a bad boy. One day she was outside reading a book; he sat down and started talking to Kaia. Kaia liked Aaron conversation because they talked about basketball and their friends. They also talked about Aaron friend James because Kaia wanted to know why he hung out with him. Aaron told her that James was his homeboy and James will do what he wants to do. After the conversation they started to date, and she got pregnant. Kaia went home to tell her mother and she wasn’t happy about that. Janice told her if she doesn’t get an abortion she would have to move out. So Kaia moved in with Aaron and his brother Keith. Aaron started to sell drugs, so he would have money for the baby. Aaron had a friend named Jermaine that just got out of jail. Jermaine seen that Aaron was living large, so he told Aaron that he owned him. Aaron was in the gas station one night when he seen Jermaine. Aaron knew that Jermaine and him had beef, and he wanted to get to him before Jermaine did. Aaron shot him Jermaine in the head. Kaia was in labor while all of this was happening. Aaron had gone to jail and was sentence to 10 years. Symphany was their when Kaia had a baby girl named Phoenix.
Kaia had got her and the baby apartment, and started to work at the law firm with her friend Giselle. Her dearly life was working, picking up Phoenix and going to see Aaron. Kaia started feeling lonely and started messing with a guy named Erick. Erick and Aaron were boys. Giselle told Kaia to hook up with Erick since Aaron was in jail. Giselle was the jealous type and she had feeling for Aaron. Giselle wanted to live the life that Kaia had. Kaia didn’t want to hook up with Erick because she stilled loved Aaron. Kaia went out on a date with Erick and had a one night stand. Kaia had went out with the girls one night, and told them what happing with her and Erick. Giselle was happy to hear that because the next day she went to go see Aaron. Giselle had told Aaron what had happen with Kaia and Erick. When Kaia went to see Aaron he was acting different. Aaron told her that he find out she was messing around, and he didn’t want to see her anymore. Kaia knew that she only told her girlfriends, and she didn’t know how he finds out.
Aaron had got out of jails two years later. He and his brother went to go get breakfast and they seen Giselle. Keith knew that Giselle was a gold digger and was all about the money. Aaron didn’t pay her any attention because he didn’t care about her. When Giselle seen Kaia she told her that Aaron was home from jail. Kaia wanted to know how she knew before her. Giselle told Kaia that Aaron was at her house. Kaia went home and started to put all the pieces together about Giselle. Then s he figure out that Giselle was the one that told Aaron. Kaia called up her girls and they went to Giselle house. They knew that she was in their but Giselle didn’t open the door. Kaia had got Giselle jumped at the job the next day. The girl’s stop talking to Giselle because they seen she wasn’t a real friend. Kaia mother had got sick. Kaia went to see her mother after five years. When her mother woke up she looked at Kaia like why she was there. Kaia was hurt and told her mother to tell her sister’s what she did to her father. Janice went into cardiac arrest. Kaia sister’s asked her why she would say that. Kaia just left because she felt like no one wanted her there.
Symphany was sick and didn’t want to tell anyone. She had a seizure do to epilepsy and she was also taking pills to stop the seizure. She passed away days later. Kaia had picked up Phoenix from Aaron house and they started too talked. She told him all about Erick and how they really didn’t so nothing. He forgave her and they started to date again. Aaron and Kaia went to Symhany funeral together. Giselle was there and everybody wonder why she was there. Symphany mother told the girl’s that Symphany had let all those envelopes. Symphany had left Taila money for her to go to college. Symphany left her 50,000. Kaia open up her envelope and find out that there was one for Phoenix. Symphany left a note that Phoneix is the only that can open the envelope, but only when she turns 18th. Symphany left Kaia 50,000. Giselle opened her envelope and looked for a checked and read the letter. Symphany told her that how she wasn’t a real friend and wasn’t getting anymore. She said in the letter that her share of the money was left to Phoneix. Sympahany said she knew she was going to be mad about the money but she didn’t care. Giselle was embarrassed and bitter. After the end of all of Aaron and Kaia got married, and her an Aaron lived like a family. Kaia went to see Symphany grave and visit her mostly every month.
As you can see that this story has a strong meaning to it. People can relate to this book in many ways. Everyone doesn’t have a good relationship with their mother. I know that some people have friends that they can’t trust. I want to see if there is a part two to this book because the ended left me with nothing.
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Jan 17, 2012 Joanne rated it 3 of 5 stars

Read for a YA Lit class. Good story about an African-American girl who is abandoned by her mother when she becomes pregnant. She makes her way in the world with the help of her friends and her boyfriend and then deals with the fact that he is sent to prison. The writing was just okay and some of the characters were just a little too perfect. Also wrapped up in a nice bow at the end.

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Jan 14, 2011 Laura rated it 3 of 5 stars

For my YA Lit class. This book was horribly edited - It was in a sans serif font that was hard to read and had typos and grammatical errors like crazy. That said, it was a sweet urban fairy tale, in which the characters overcome their drug-dealing, teen-baby-having ways and are rewarded in the end with true love and financial gain.

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Sep 07, 2009 Fredericka rated it 5 of 5 stars

I loved this book for several reasons, one was because it had more characters in it that I liked and that's rare, it was only one that I didn't like and she got hers in the end which is always a plus for me, a great ending, but as always it can't have a great ending without a price which is the case in this book, I loved it.

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Feb 04, 2009 Erika rated it 5 of 5 stars

It was one of the best books I have ever read! It made me laugh. It made me cry. It made me happy.
It was like I could feel what the main character was feeling. It was amazing!!

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Jan 30, 2012 Jessica Tackett rated it 3 of 5 stars

I never thought I'd say this about a book, but the writing was so bad, it was kinda good!

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Mar 23, 2009 1Gloria onwugamba added it

ITS a good suspensful book one that i cant forget <3

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Apr 08, 2010 Johnise rated it 4 of 5 stars

this book is a good book i strongly recommend this book

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Apr 08, 2010 Carlia rated it 5 of 5 stars

I Loved This Book I Read It 2 Or 3 Times .

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Dec 27, 2012 Kia Rolle rated it 5 of 5 stars

It's a really good book to read

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Dec 09, 2012 Tanisa Bernard rated it 4 of 5 stars

Excellent!!!

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Sep 14, 2012 Shonds rated it 5 of 5 stars

i loved this book it had alot of twist and turns i read it in 2 dsys

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Mar 02, 2013 MaryAnn Koopmann rated it 5 of 5 stars

I rank this book one of the best to read. If reading books was never your thing, this book will make you want to read books all day - everyday! It was a page turner, awesome book! I rank this book 10+!!!

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Feb 06, 2008 Natalie rated it 4 of 5 stars

Beautiful story of a couple so deep in love and the lengths that her man goes thru to give her everything she needs. It is a tale of love, life, and friendship.

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Jul 20, 2009 Gretchen rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: ya-for-school

Plenty of drama: unplanned pregnancy, prison, murder, lying, cheating, death...but deep down this book is a nothing but a love story.

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Mar 15, 2008 Saysha Wilson rated it 2 of 5 stars

I coldn't get into this one. After three attempts, I return it back to the bookstore for a refund.

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Feb 21, 2008 Shena rated it 5 of 5 stars

I really loved the story line with this book. Very good.

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Sep 05, 2012 JazzyRacquel rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: favorites, wishlist, urban-fiction

Loved This !

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Shelves: 483-class, ya-lit

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