Twelve-year-old Ulysses is new in town. Between his unusual name and the port-wine stain splashed across his face, he’s hardly looking for more attention. Uly is happiest hidden behind the lens of a camera, where he can obscure his appearance while taking in the world around him. Luckily, his middle school needs a photographer for their mural project, and Uly gets to watch (and snap) as students come together to paint a local artist’s design. The mural is perfect: powerful words, images from nature, and even a painting mistake transformed into a tiny rainbow. Except that tiny rainbow becomes a GIANT problem. Murals are supposed to bring communities together. What does it say about our community, that our mural must be destroyed over something as innocent as a rainbow? Activism, art, and identity collide in this courageous story based on real-world events.
