Chill Wind

By: Janet McDonald

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Paperback | 24 January 2006

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Paperback
144 Pages

Age
12 - 18

Grade
7+

Dimensions(cm)
20.96 x 13.97 x 1.27

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A tough and funny project girl manages to make that chill wind blow away

The good life, according to Aisha Ingram, is easy. It's hanging with friends, dancing, listening to music, whatever . . . but it doesn't include worrying about the future. Chilling out is her mantra until she receives a sixty-day termination-of-welfare-benefits notice. Without her monthly food stamps and assistance checks and with no help from the father of her two children, Aisha's life threatens to become a little too "chilly." The clock is ticking and she doesn't have many options, but one thing she knows for sure: workfare is not for her. There's no way she's going to scrub subway cars or sweep city sidewalks. Aisha tries to come up with other ways to get money, but things don't look good. Soon another notice comes: only thirty days left. Then she sees an ad on TV for BIGMODELS, and she figures she might as well check out the agency. After all, she is pretty enough. But just when it looks like Aisha's problems might be solved, things grow crazy again.

In Aisha, Janet McDonald has created a larger-than-life heroine who finds and succeeds at what is right for her.

Chill Wind is the winner of the 2003 Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe New Talent Award.

Industry Reviews

"McDonald writes with such honesty, wit, and insight that you want to quote from every page and read much of this story aloud to share the laughter and anguish, failure and hope, fury and tenderness, of black project girl Aisha Ingram . . . The truth of the characters and their talk and the energy of the neighborhood . . . will grab readers from everywhere." --Starred, Booklist

"The language is real and believable and evokes life in an urban setting. Determination, familial love, and courage are the themes examined." --School Library Journal

"McDonald deserves kudos for her gritty, unsentimental portrait of day-to-day life in the projects." --Kirkus Reviews McDonald writes with such honesty, wit, and insight that you want to quote from every page and read much of this story aloud to share the laughter and anguish, failure and hope, fury and tenderness, of black project girl Aisha Ingram . . . The truth of the characters and their talk and the energy of the neighborhood . . . will grab readers from everywhere. "Starred, Booklist"

The language is real and believable and evokes life in an urban setting. Determination, familial love, and courage are the themes examined. "School Library Journal"

McDonald deserves kudos for her gritty, unsentimental portrait of day-to-day life in the projects. "Kirkus Reviews"" "McDonald writes with such honesty, wit, and insight that you want to quote from every page and read much of this story aloud to share the laughter and anguish, failure and hope, fury and tenderness, of black project girl Aisha Ingram . . . The truth of the characters and their talk and the energy of the neighborhood . . . will grab readers from everywhere." --Starred, "Booklist""" "The language is real and believable and evokes life in an urban setting. Determination, familial love, and courage are the themes examined." --"School Library Journal" "McDonald deserves kudos for her gritty, unsentimental portrait of day-to-day life in the projects." --"Kirkus Reviews"

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