The Other Half of My Heart
Autor Sundee T. Frazieren Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mai 2011 – vârsta de la 8 până la 12 ani
When Minerva and Keira King were born, they made headlines: Keira is black like Mama, but Minni is white like Daddy. Together the family might look like part of a chessboard row, but they are first and foremost the close-knit Kings. Then Grandmother Johnson calls, to invite the twins down South to compete for the title of Miss Black Pearl Preteen of America.
Minni dreads the spotlight, but Keira assures her that together they'll get through their stay with Grandmother Johnson. But when grandmother's bias against Keira reveals itself, Keira pulls away from her twin. Minni has always believed that no matter how different she and Keira are, they share a deep bond of the heart. Now she'll find out the truth.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780440240068
ISBN-10: 0440240069
Pagini: 296
Dimensiuni: 135 x 192 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Yearling Books
ISBN-10: 0440240069
Pagini: 296
Dimensiuni: 135 x 192 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Yearling Books
Notă biografică
Sundee T. Frazier is the author of Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything in It, for which she received the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award. As a teen, she was crowned Miss Palouse Empire and was first runner-up in the Washington State Junior Miss Program (not pageant). Learn more about her and her books at www.sundeefrazier.com.
From the Hardcover edition.
From the Hardcover edition.
Extras
Mama was always pointing out that of the millions of genes that made them all human, only seven or eight told their skin what color to be. A minuscule number, she said. A very small difference.
So that was what Minni chose to believe, even though somewhere deep inside her brain, in a little drawer she rarely let herself open, lived the concern that the difference she'd been assured didn't matter actually mattered a lot.
She squeezed her sister's hand and made an early birthday wish: May nothing ever, ever come between Keira and me. Nothing—big or small.
From the Hardcover edition.
So that was what Minni chose to believe, even though somewhere deep inside her brain, in a little drawer she rarely let herself open, lived the concern that the difference she'd been assured didn't matter actually mattered a lot.
She squeezed her sister's hand and made an early birthday wish: May nothing ever, ever come between Keira and me. Nothing—big or small.
From the Hardcover edition.
Recenzii
"Funny and deeply affecting, this novel by the Steptoe Award winner for Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything in It (2007) revisits the still largely unexplored world of multiracial heritage...Frazier highlights the contradictions, absurdities, humor and pain that accompany life as a mixed-race tween. Never didactic, this is the richest portrait of multiracial identity and family since Virginia Hamilton's 1976 novel Arilla Sun Down. An outstanding achievement."
-Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"A novel with a great deal of heart indeed..."
- Booklist, starred review
From the Hardcover edition.
-Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"A novel with a great deal of heart indeed..."
- Booklist, starred review
From the Hardcover edition.
Descriere
The close relationship of a pair of biracial twins is tested when their grandmother enters them in a pageant for African-American girls in this story from Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award winner Frazier.