Not your all-American girl / Madelyn Rosenberg & Wendy Wan-Long Shang.
by Rosenberg, Madelyn [author.]; Shang, Wendy Wan Long [author.].
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BookPublisher: New York : Scholastic Press, 2020.Edition: First edition.Description: 243 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9781338037760.Subject(s): Children's plays -- Juvenile fiction | Musicals -- Juvenile fiction | Stereotypes (Social psychology) -- Juvenile fiction | Best friends -- Juvenile fiction | Friendship -- Juvenile fiction | Grandmothers -- Juvenile fiction | Theater -- Fiction | Musicals -- Fiction | Stereotypes -- Fiction | Best friends -- Fiction | Friendship -- Fiction | Grandmothers -- Fiction | Multiracial people -- Fiction | Jews -- United States -- Fiction | Chinese Americans -- FictionDDC classification: 813.6 | Fic Summary: Sixth-graders Lauren and Tara have always done everything together so it is only natural that they both try out for their middle school musical play, about an "all-American" girl in 1958; Tara gets the lead role, as usual, because in the teacher's mind Lauren, half-Jewish and half-Chinese, does not fit the image of all-American girl--Lauren is hurt but resolved to support her friend, but her two grandmothers are furious and they intend to do something about it.
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Sixth-graders Lauren and Tara have always done everything together so it is only natural that they both try out for their middle school musical play, about an "all-American" girl in 1958; Tara gets the lead role, as usual, because in the teacher's mind Lauren, half-Jewish and half-Chinese, does not fit the image of all-American girl--Lauren is hurt but resolved to support her friend, but her two grandmothers are furious and they intend to do something about it.
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