Frazier, Sundee Tucker, 1968-
The other half of my heart / Sundee T. Frazier. - 1st Yearling ed. - New York : Yearling, 2011, c2010. - 296 p. ; 20 cm.
"A Yearling book."
Wilson's Children, September 2011 Wilson's Junior High School, September 2011 School Library Journal, July 2010 Booklist starred, August 2010 Kirkus Starred, May 2010 Horn Book, October 2010 Library Media Connection, October 2010 Christian Library, February 2011
Twin daughters of interracial parents, eleven-year-olds Keira and Minna have very different skin tones and personalities, but it is not until their African American grandmother enters them in the Miss Black Pearl Pre-Teen competition in North Carolina that red-haired and pale-skinned Minna realizes what life in their small town in the Pacific Northwest has been like for her more outgoing, darker-skinned sister.
4.9. 3-6 Follett Library Resources.
0440240069
Racially mixed people--Fiction.
Twins--Fiction.
Sisters--Fiction.
Individuality--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Prejudices--Fiction.
Beauty contests--Fiction.
Grandmothers--Fiction.
PZ7.F8715 / Ot 2011
[Fic]
The other half of my heart / Sundee T. Frazier. - 1st Yearling ed. - New York : Yearling, 2011, c2010. - 296 p. ; 20 cm.
"A Yearling book."
Wilson's Children, September 2011 Wilson's Junior High School, September 2011 School Library Journal, July 2010 Booklist starred, August 2010 Kirkus Starred, May 2010 Horn Book, October 2010 Library Media Connection, October 2010 Christian Library, February 2011
Twin daughters of interracial parents, eleven-year-olds Keira and Minna have very different skin tones and personalities, but it is not until their African American grandmother enters them in the Miss Black Pearl Pre-Teen competition in North Carolina that red-haired and pale-skinned Minna realizes what life in their small town in the Pacific Northwest has been like for her more outgoing, darker-skinned sister.
4.9. 3-6 Follett Library Resources.
0440240069
Racially mixed people--Fiction.
Twins--Fiction.
Sisters--Fiction.
Individuality--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Prejudices--Fiction.
Beauty contests--Fiction.
Grandmothers--Fiction.
PZ7.F8715 / Ot 2011
[Fic]