Can Laura figure out how to get what she wants at school while also honoring her family's past? but when a careless mistake puts the shack-and the Laura Line-in jeopardy, Laura must decide what's truly important to her. So she comes up with the perfect plan to get the trip canceled. But Laura knows better: her classmates will never accept her once they see the shack. Heck to the power of no way Her grandmother insists that it's more than just an old shack it's a monument to the strong women in their family-the Laura Line. Until one day, their history teacher announces a field trip to the run-down slave shack on her grandmother's property.

But everyone at school teases her for being overweight, and Troy won't give her a second glance. Laura Dyson wants two things in life: to be accepted by her classmates and to be noticed by ultracute baseball star Troy Bailey. A touching and funny story of one girl's journey to discover where she came from and the unlimited possibilities of who she can become, from Crystal Allen, the acclaimed author of How Lamar's Bad Prank Won a Bubba-Sized Trophy and The Magnificent Mya Tibbs: Spirit Week Showdown.

The laura line by crystal allen