The Only Black Girls in Town - Brandy Colbert

A Bank Street Best Book of 2021!From award-winning YA author Brandy Colbert comes a debut middle-grade novel about the only two Black girls in town who discover a collection of hidden journals revealing shocking secrets of the past. Beach-loving surfer Alberta has been the only Black girl in town for years. Albertas best friend, Laramie, is the closest thing she has to a sister, but there are some things even Laramie cant understand. When the bed and breakfast across the street finds new owners, Alberta is ecstatic to learn the family is black—and they have a 12-year-old daughter just like her.Alberta is positive she and the new girl, Edie, will be fast friends. But while Alberta loves being a California girl, Edie misses her native Brooklyn and finds it hard to adapt to small-town living.When the girls discover a box of old journals in Edies attic, they team up to figure out exactly whos behind them and why they got left behind. Soon they discover shocking and painful secrets of the past and learn that nothing is quite what it seems.