Sharee Miller

A young girl imparts a lesson about the importance of asking permission when everyone she meets, from strangers in the street to aliens in space, want to touch her soft and bouncy hair.

Third-grader Shai is already busy with her mother away and the Student Orchestra's benefit concert coming up, but that does not stop her from helping a stray animal in her backyard.

When Shai Williams, who plans to become a star on Broadway, loses the lead role in the third-grade musical at her performing arts elementary school in Atlanta, she learns an important lesson about adaptability, from her mother, aunt, and grandmother, all actresses.

Addresses--honestly, yet hopefully--the experiences Black children face growing up with systemic racism, as well as providing hope for the future and delivering a message of empowerment to a new generation of dreamers.