Dafina's story is one of a seven-year-old African American girl who is learning to navigate the world around her. Dafina takes readers through a series of events where Dafina learns to cope with varying situations, such as anger, physical differences, divorce, and depression. Dafina's story provides tools for children around her to learn to manage their emotions around difficulties of life and includes discussion questions at the end of her story for readers to discuss with their parents, teachers, or therapists. In Dafina's first story, she learns how to cope with her feelings of anger then identifies how she could have handled the situation differently through the encouragement of her teacher, Ms. Potts. Dafina is wheelchair-bound, but that does not define her story.