The lions of little rock nine

In the book The Lions of Little Rock Nine by Kristin Levine is kinda about a little rock nine but mostly about a 13yr. old girl named Marlee and she live in a time when people still believed that the white and colored students should be separated but Marlee never thought about because she was in a school with no colored people,until one day a colored girl that was not so dark and had straight and hair like Marlee came to the school and became very good friends with Marlee.One day her sister gives her very good advice about friends "Don't find a friend you think will like you,find a friend that has the same interests that you do and will like you for you."