Make Your Selection: What the Fireflies Knew by Kai Harris

After almost-eleven-year-old Kenyatta's father dies of an overdose, she and her sister are sent to live with their estranged grandfather in Lansing where, over the course of the summer, Kenyatta comes to the heartbreaking but necessary realization that loved ones can be flawed, sometimes significantly so, and that the perfect family we all dream of looks different up close.