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Author:

Frazier, Sundee Tucker, 1968-

Title:

The other half of my heart / Sundee T. Frazier.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Delacorte Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

296 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Racially mixed people--Juvenile fiction.
Twins--Juvenile fiction.
Sisters--Juvenile fiction.
Identity (Psychology)--Juvenile fiction.
African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
Prejudices--Juvenile fiction.
Beauty contests--Juvenile fiction.
Grandmothers--Juvenile fiction.

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.

Indexed by:

Kirkus Starred, May 2010.

ISBN:

0385904460
9780385904469 (lib. bdg.)
0385734409
9780385734400

LCCN:

2009013209

Locations:

DFPC353 -- Ackley Public Library (Ackley)

GFPE771 -- Altoona Public Library (Altoona)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

FYPI314 -- Dubuque County Library - Asbury Branch (Asbury)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

MYPC943 -- Gowrie Public Library (Gowrie)

AWPD207 -- Osceola Public Library (Osceola)

AXPF626 -- Oskaloosa Public Library (Oskaloosa)

ESPD725 -- Sibley Public Library (Sibley)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)