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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 -- now in paperback! Framed. Bullied. Disliked. But I know I can still be the best. Sometimes 12-year-old Donte wishes he were invisible. As one of the few black boys at Middlefield Prep most of the students don t look like him. They don t like him either. Dubbing him Black Brother Donte s teachers and classmates make it clear they wish he were more like his lighter-skinned brother Trey. 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. Terrified searching for a place where he belongs Donte joins a local youth center and meets former Olympic fencer Arden Jones. With Arden s help he begins training as a competitive fencer se