Describe Dinitia Hewiit and how and how she treats Jeannette at first.

Dinitia Hewitt is an African American classmate of Jeannette’s in Welch. Dinitia and her followers bully Jeannette at Welch Elementary. The two later become friends after Dinitia witnesses Jeannette helping a neighbor escape a dog attack. Dinitia becomes pregnant in seventh grade and is arrested for stabbing her mother's boyfriend to death. It is implied that her mother's boyfriend sexually assaulted Dinitia.