@book{920, keywords = {Roman Catholics, teenagers, social workers, suburbs, foster care, nuns, Black Americans}, author = {Lee McClain}, title = {My Alternative Life}, abstract = {Trinity B. Jones is a brown-skinned, inner-city, foster teen with a nose ring. When a social worker places Trinity in a cliquey, white, suburban high school, she strains to negotiate the new fashions and sexual attitudes and how to reunite, via the Internet, with her birth mother.}, year = {2004}, pages = {177 p.}, publisher = {SMOOCH/Dorchester Publishing Company}, address = {New York}, language = {English}, }