I’m a big fan of Jacqueline Woodson’s work, and After Tupac and D Foster is a powerful addition to her list of works. The 11-year-old narrator tells us about her best friend Neeka and their Queens, NY neighborhood in the 1990s. Tupac is still alive, and another young girl named D Foster (is that her real name?) steps off a bus one day and into the girls’ lives. D is mysterious and secretive, but the girls love her like a sister. They don’t know where she lives or all that much about her other than her name and the fact that she is in foster care.

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