Book excerpt: How would you feel if you were told that you could not be friends with someone for reasons you could not understand? What if most of the people you knew did not like your friend and said mean things about him or her? For Lincoln Reilly and Tobar Nany, friendship comes at high costs: bullying, mistrust, and secrecy--all because Tobar belongs to an ethnic group that is disliked and misunderstood. Can they remain friends even when their classmates and families seem to be against them?