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Title details for The Other Half of My Heart by Sundee T. Frazier - Available

The Other Half of My Heart

by Sundee T. Frazier
Bahni Turpin
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The story of biracial twin sisters—one black, one white—and the summer that tests their strong bond, from the author of Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award-winner Brendan Buckley’s Universe and Everything in It.
 
When Minerva and Keira King were born, they made headlines: Keira is black like Mama, but Minni is white like Daddy. Together the family might look like part of a chessboard row, but they are first and foremost the close-knit Kings. Then Grandmother Johnson calls, to invite the twins down South to compete for the title of Miss Black Pearl Preteen of America.
     Minni dreads the spotlight, but Keira assures her that together they'll get through their stay with Grandmother Johnson. But when their grandmother's bias against Keira reveals itself, Keira pulls away from her twin. Minni has always believed that no matter how different she and Keira are, they share a deep bond of the heart. Now she'll find out whether that’s really true.
"One luminous pearl of a sister story."—RITA WILLIAMS-GARCIA, author of the Newbery Honor Award-winner One Crazy Summer
Winner of the Skipping Stone Honor Award
 
*"Frazier highlights the contradictions, absurdities, humor, and pain that accompany life as a mixed-race tween. Never didactic, this is the richest portrait of multiracial identity and family since Virginia Hamilton's 1976 novel Arilla Sun Down. An outstanding achievement."—Kirkus Reviews, Starred
 
*"Not only does Frazier raise questions worth pondering, but her ability to round out each character, looking past easy explanations for attitude, is impressive. . . . A novel with a great deal of heart indeed."—Booklist, Starred

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  • Release date

    June 14, 2011

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780307879646
      • File size: 225752 KB
      • Duration: 07:50:18

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • Text Difficulty: 3-6

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Minerva and Keira King are one-in-a-million twins, not because they were born in a Cessna, but because Minni is white like their dad and Keira is black like their mom. Minni often wishes she looked more like the other women in her family, but she doesn't learn what it truly means to be different until the twins visit their Southern grandmother to compete in a black preteen beauty pageant. Narrator Bahni Turpin invests Minni's voice with a youthful lilt that convincingly conveys both her sense of mischief and her deepening confusion as she struggles with self-identity. Using a variety of pitches and light accents, Turpin increases the accessibility of this coming-of-age story--perfect for family listening. C.B.L. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

Levels

  • Text Difficulty:3-6

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