The Great Divide Author:Lynette Ferreira Vincent is a seventeen-year-old black boy whose father is an influential executive, who built his empire from humble beginnings and many hardships. Chrissie is a white sixteen-year-old girl whose father and mother both work at mundane jobs, they are a borderline middle class family. When their worlds meet, and they feel the pull of gravity towar... more »ds each other, would they be able to overcome the unapproved stares from other people and their parents' concealed racism. Would love triumph over the ingrained teaching of their parents that although it is all right to have inter-racial friendships that it would be against the laws of nature to fall in love?« less