The other half of my heart / Sundee T. Frazier.
by Frazier, Sundee Tucker.
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BookPublisher: New York : Yearling, 2011, c2010Edition: 1st Yearling ed.Description: 296 p. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 0440240069.Subject(s): Racially mixed people -- Fiction | Twins -- Fiction | Sisters -- Fiction | Individuality -- Fiction | African Americans -- Fiction | Prejudices -- Fiction | Beauty contests -- Fiction | Grandmothers -- FictionDDC classification: [Fic] Summary: 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.
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"A Yearling book."
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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.
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