Margaret A. Edwards winner

Woodson, Jacqueline.  If You Come Softly.  New York: Speak, 1998. 181 pages.
On their first day at Percy,  sophomores Miah and Ellie meet by literally bumping into each other.  Miah is the son of a famous filmmaker and a writer.  Ellie is the daughter of a doctor.  They come from two different worlds, one upper class and black, the other upper middle class and white.  While they are falling deeply in love they try to come to grips with the prejudices of both their worlds.
This book is a very quick read.  It grabs you in the beginning and holds on tightly to the reader until the end.  Written from the character's viewpoints in alternating chapters, I found myself falling in love with both Miah and Ellie.  While I saw the end coming, I was amazed at how powerfully it effected me.