Toswiah Green/Evie Thomas

Toswiah Green is the fourteen-year-old daughter of a policeman who has seen two white cops shoot down an unarmed black boy. When he testifies, the family enters the witness protection program, and is moved to the East Coast. Toswiah become Evie, and has to struggle to make a new life for herself in an unfamiliar place, and in the absence of the friends she has always known. She finds a passion and a talent for running, and befriends a girl named Toswiah, of all things. She starts to feel at home in her new location, and looks at life with promise.

Cameron Green/Anna Thomas

Cameron is Toswiah's sister. She takes the name Anna when she relocates to the East Coast. She is older than Toswiah, and she loses her boyfriend when the family is relocated, but this is made a little clear-cut when it...