Welcome to Litsy!

First-generation American LatinX Liliana Cruz does what it takes to fit in at her new nearly all-white school. But when family secrets spill out and racism at school ramps up, she must decide what she believes in and take a stand. Liliana Cruz is a hitting a wall�or rather, walls. There�s the wall her mom has put up ever since Liliana�s dad left�again. There�s the wall that delineates Liliana�s diverse inner-city Boston neighborhood from Westburg, the wealthy�and white�suburban high school she�s just been accepted into. And there�s the wall Liliana creates within herself, because to survive at Westburg, she can�t just lighten up, she has to whiten up. So what if she changes her name? So what if she changes the way she talks? So what if she�s seeing her neighborhood in a different way? But then light is shed on some hard truths: It isn�t that her father doesn�t want to come home�he can�t�and her whole family is in jeopardy. And when racial tensions at school reach a fever pitch, the walls that divide feel insurmountable. But a wall isn�t always a barrier. It can be a foundation for something better. And Liliana must choose: Use this foundation as a platform to speak her truth, or risk crumbling under its weight.