After Tupac and D Foster — Jacqueline Woodson

D Foster showed up a few months before Tupac got shot that first time.

When D Foster enters Neeka's and her best friend's lives, their world opens up. D's the kind of girl that's been places and attracts attention. Before long the three are inseparable, bonded by a passion for the music of Tupac Shakur. Then, all too soon, D's mom swoops in to reclaim D -- and as magically as she appeared, she disappears from their lives. Tupac is gone, too, after another shooting -- this time fatal. And the girls are left to ponder how even the briefest connections can touch so deeply. . . .