The Cruisers

By Walter Dean Myers

Subjects: African Americans, African americans, fiction, Brothers and sisters, fiction, Middle schools, Theater, Gifted children, fiction, Schools, fiction, Autism, fiction, Autism, Fiction, Gifted children, Children's fiction, Brothers and sisters, Juvenile fiction, Harlem (new york, n.y.), fiction, Schools

Description: Zander's play, Act Six, brings Da Vinci Academy into the spotlight, especially when LaShonda's costume designs win her an opportunity she can accept only if she is willing to leave her autistic brother and their group home behind.