TY - SER KW - Roman Catholics KW - teenagers KW - social workers KW - suburbs KW - foster care KW - nuns KW - Black Americans AU - Lee McClain AB - 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. C1 - 2000s C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; South Side C4 - Children’s; Young Adult; Black CY - New York LA - English M3 - Novel N2 - 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. PB - SMOOCH/Dorchester Publishing Company PP - New York PY - 2004 RN - Lee Tobin McClain (1960— ) is a writer and teacher in Greensburg, Westmoreland County. She is professor of English at Seton Hill University's Master of Fine Arts in Popular Fiction Program. EP - 177 p. TI - My Alternative Life ER -