The View From Garden City-Carolyn Baugh.

Being Elizabeth-Barbara Taylor Bradford.

The hip hop vernacular adds freshness that enables the young adult reader to feel even closer to the strong cast especially the superstar Seven as fans will say yeah-yeah to Ni-Ni Simone’s superb in the hood teen tale. She wants to do right by her friends, her family, Josiah and others, but realizes someone probably her will be hurt regardless of what she does even doing nothing. Seven holds the story line together as the 360 degree focus with her struggles between loyalties pulling her in differing directions. This is an entertaining character driven urban teen relationship drama that brings alive an inner city extended clique. Seven wants to fly with Josiah, but also fears destroying their clique, but that may be too late as she and Shae are on one side of the divide and Deeyah with Ki-Ki and Yaanah on the other.

Meanwhile Deeyah starts playing with Josiah’s enemy Dollah so Josiah dumps her and begins trying to get Seven to go with him. Instead her best friend Shae begins seeing him. When Melvin “Big Country” arrives from Murfreesboro, North Carolina, he likes Big Mama whom he calls “Shawtie”, but she rejects his passes.

She also hides her feelings for the school’s star baler Josiah, who is seeing her friend Deeyah. However, she is worried about her twin sister Toi who sneaks out of the house to be with her hood of a boyfriend. In Newark size fourteen sixteen years old Seven “Big Mama” McKnight struggles somewhat with self esteem as the thickest person on her clique, but being bigger also makes her feel she is fly.

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