Black Ice by Lorene Cary

The book Black Ice by Lorene Cary is an autobiography about a black teenage girl. She is going to a private school that had only allowed white boys to attend. It takes place in 1972, at St.Paul's, a formerly all white, all boys school, in New Hampshire. Unlike other students from her school she is poor and goes to St.Paul's on a scholarship.
At first she was shy and scared, then as she was getting older St. Paul's gave her the confidence to stand up for herself. For example, at home she got a job as a waitress, and when she went to go get a stick of butter in the freezer a worker locked her in with him. He started to touch her and when she finally got out she told the manager. The manager wouldn't do anything so she talked to a person that was the next highest, and when he didn't do anything she talked to the owner. Finally the owner fired the worker who molested her. She was scared and didn't talk to anyone about it. She only felt safe when she was in the car with her father, but in the end she had stood up for herself even though she had some challenges.
Lorene also had a boyfriend named Ricky, and she was ready to have sex with him, however Ricky tells her a secret that changes her prospective on him. He had impregnated another girl, and then called her a whore. When Lorene came back to her room she thought about what he said, and then she imagined as if she was pregnant with Ricky's baby. Would he call her a whore or still love her? She ends up not loving him anymore and forgets about him.
The book shows you a girl who goes back and forth between two worlds, one world which is living with her family, in a poor black house hold, and the other world is her school life experiencing a rich white prep school, where she learns to become an adult and facing harsh academic challenges such as failing her math class, also she goes through social challenges, for example every one gives her a hard time while she was running for president. I did not enjoy this book because nothing exciting happens or anything interesting. The book seemed like a really long diary and it is like a run on book.