Winning With Dignity

by Angela Comer

Overview

This Book tells the story of Clarke Simone Winters, a well-bred, well-educated teen with an over-inflated ego and untamed tongue. What begins as an attempt to educate her sheltered, borderline racist teacher, in African culture and achievement turns spins out of control and lands her in hot water with her teacher, principal, and her mother. Her mother, in attempt to teach Clarke a lesson, sentences her to a day of in-school-suspension to be served at one of the toughest public high schools in the area, Strong High School. Fear and dread silences the usually loquacious Clarke long enough to learn that education and knowledge are the great equalizers and good friends, intelligence, and competition can be found in all neighborhoods. Her expanded horizons and friendships are finally threatened by a tragic set of events that sets all that has been learned in jeopardy. Clarke, however, has one more lesson to give and she delivers it to the one who set this journey of enlightenment and service into motion, her mother.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940011910692
Publisher:	Angela Comer
Publication date:	10/08/2010
Series:	Destined and Determined , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	64 KB

About the Author

It is amazing what sorts of situations and issues one runs into while trying to raise 3 African-American young ladies and one young man. Couple that with the fact that three are adopted saddled with tragic histories and it’s easy to imagine the wealth of stories that can be told and how age-appropriate fiction could be used to aid them in working through their issues. When Angela Comer went looking for those sorts of book, she found the educated, African-American middle class under-represented in stories or misrepresented as living the perfect life. Instead of complaining about the absence, she sought to create it.
Winning with Dignity is her attempt to create a series of fiction for youth that is realistic, pertinent, and edgy with a strong voice. The main character, Clarke Simone Winters, is a privileged, well-bred African American female who, so sheltered by the lifestyle her parents provide for her, suffers from a lofty sense of self and needs a dose of reality. That dose is provided when she confronts a bigoted teacher and her own biases and prejudices regarding her own race. The characters in the book are flawed enough to be believable but not so deviant to be unredeemable or in today’s society, cliché.
The storyline emanates from her experience as a single mother, an adoptive and foster mother, and a police detective working with youth from all walks of life. With that background, there is an endless supply of literary inspiration.