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After Tupac And D Foster (2008) is a children's novel written by Jacqueline Woodson, It was a Newbery Medal Honor Book in 2009. It also won the American Library Association Award, and the 2009 Josette Frank Award.

Plot summary
After Tupac And D Foster is based on 2 African-American 11 year old girls; Neeka and the unnamed Narrator, and a third multi-racial girl D Foster, who had just moved into their urban Queens neighborhood. The story is also a backdrop for the Artist Tupac Amaru Shakur and what he was going through in the mid 1990's; from his legal issues leading to his death.

Neeka and the Narrator have been friends since birth, they grew up together on the same block in the safe Queens neighborhood. They were in a bit of a shock when introduced to D Foster because of the image D portrayed, but through the love and personal connection they felt from Tupac Amaru Shakur's music all three of them develop a lasting friendship. Later in their Teen years D opened up to Neeka and the Narrator and reveals that her alcoholic mother abandoned her as a child and she had been hoping from one foster home to another. Then she goes on to say how her real mother wants her back, and even through their conflicting relationship their is love and compares her relationship to the relationship Tupac and his mother shared.

Awards

 * Newbery Medal
 * Josette Frank Award
 * American Library Association Award