Now Donte must confront his bullies, racism, and the corrupt systems of power that led to his arrest.
As Donte hones his fencing skills and grows closer to achieving his goal, he learns the fight for justice is far from over. With Arden's help, he begins training as a competitive fencer, setting his sights on taking down the fencing team captain, no matter what. Terrified, searching for a place where he belongs, Donte joins a local youth center and meets former Olympic fencer Arden Jones.
When he's bullied and framed by the captain of the fencing team, "King" Alan, he's suspended from school and arrested for something he didn't do. Donte, the black brother, feels like he’s swimming in whiteness at Middlefield Prep School, where he is regularly bullied. But Dante is singled out, mistrusted and unfairly. Dante and his brother, Trey, both attend Middlefield Prep. Dubbing him "Black Brother," Donte's teachers and classmates make it clear they wish he were more like his lighter-skinned brother, Trey. Older brother Trey, the lighter-skinned sibling of the boys’ black (Mom thinks Nigerian and Congolese) mother and white (Scotch-Irish and Norwegian) father, is considered the white brother. In Black Brother, Black Brother by Coretta Scott King Honor author Jewell Parker Rhodes ( Sugar ), Dante is confronted with the stark realization that merely hoping for change isn’t going to work. As one of the few black boys at Middlefield Prep, most of the students don't look like him. Sometimes, 12-year-old Donte wishes he were invisible. Summary: From award-winning and bestselling author, Jewell Parker Rhodes comes a powerful coming-of-age story about two brothers, one who presents as white, the other as black, and the complex ways in which they are forced to navigate the world, all while training for a fencing competition.
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