When seven-year-old Willimena spends all the money she earned selling Girl Scout cookies, her big sister Tina helps her come up with a plan to earn the money back.
PI Tamara Hayle of New Jersey is hired to learn who is sending threatening notes to black talk-show hostess Mandy Magic. The novel looks at the process by which blacks rise from the ghetto.
The black PI, Tamara Hayle, is asked by an inner- city mother in Newark to investigate the murder of her lowlife son. The probe takes Tamara into the world of black society. A comparison of two black worlds, the rich and the poor.
When third-grader Willimena loses the class pet, her teacher helps her to understand that responsibility means doing one's best, and that animals can't always be controlled.