The Other Half of My Heart
New York : Delacorte Press, [2010]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 296 pages ; 22 cm
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.
Subjects:
Racially mixed people -- Juvenile fiction.
Twins -- Juvenile fiction.
Sisters -- Juvenile fiction.
Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Juvenile fiction.
African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
Prejudices -- Juvenile fiction.
Beauty contests -- Juvenile fiction.
Grandmothers -- Juvenile fiction.
Racially mixed people -- Juvenile fiction.
Twins -- Juvenile fiction.
Sisters -- Juvenile fiction.
Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Juvenile fiction.
African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
Prejudices -- Juvenile fiction.
Beauty contests -- Juvenile fiction.
Grandmothers -- Juvenile fiction.
Target Audience: 009-012.
ISBN:
0385904460 (lib. bdg.)