National Book Award winner Kathryn Erskine delivers a powerful story of family friendship and race relations in the South. <br><br> Life will never be the same for Red Porter. He's a kid growing up around black car grease white fence paint and the backward attitudes of the folks who live in his hometown Rocky Gap Virginia. <br><br><br> Red's daddy his idol has just died leaving Red and Mama with some hard decisions and a whole lot of doubt. Should they sell the Porter family business a gas station repair shop and convenience store rolled into one where the slogan -- 'Porter's: We Fix it Right!' -- has been shouting the family's pride for as long as anyone can remember? <br><br> With Daddy gone everything's different. Through his friendship with Thomas Beau and Miss Georgia Red starts to see there's a lot more than car motors and rusty fenders that need fixing in his world. <br><br><br> When Red discovers the injustices that have been happening in Rocky Gap since before he was born he's faced with unsettling questions about his family's legacy.
