The other half of happy / by Rebecca Balcárcel.
Material type:
TextPublisher: San Francisco : Chronicle Books, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 317 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781452169989
- 1452169985
- Racially mixed children -- Texas -- Juvenile fiction
- Racially mixed families -- Texas -- Juvenile fiction
- Ethnicity -- Juvenile fiction
- Identity (Psychology) -- Juvenile fiction
- Brothers and sisters -- Juvenile fiction
- Parent and child -- Juvenile fiction
- Families -- Juvenile fiction
- Family life -- Texas -- Fiction
- Texas -- Juvenile fiction
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | Balcarce Rebecca | Available | 33111009702115 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
2020 Pura Belpré Honor Book
A Junior Library Guild Selection
ALSC Notable Children's Book
2020 Jean Flynn Award for Best Middle Grade Book
2020 Spirit of Texas Reading Program Recommended Title
This immersive and beautifully written novel follows the story of Quijana, a girl in pieces.
Quijana must figure out which parts of herself are most important, and which pieces come together to make her whole.
This is a heartfelt poetic portrayal of a girl growing up, fitting in, and learning what it means to belong.
* Lyrical middle grade debut from author Rebecca Balcárcel
* A diverse and family-centered story that resonates with anyone who remembers, or is going through, growing pains
* Inclusively embraces real life experiences with biracial, autistic, and gay characters
One-half Guatemalan, one-half American: When Quijana's Guatemalan cousins move to town, her dad seems ashamed that she doesn't know more about her family's heritage.
One-half crush, one-half buddy: When Quijana meets Zuri and Jayden, she knows she's found true friends. But she can't help the growing feelings she has for Jayden.
One-half kid, one-half grown-up: Quijana spends her nights Skyping with her ailing grandma and trying to figure out what's going on with her increasingly hard-to-reach brother.
* A wonderful gift for bilingual and bicultural readers, introspective tweens and teens, and parents and educators
* Perfect for those who love the heart of Matt de la Peña, the honesty of Meg Medina, and the poetry of Kate DiCamillo
* Add it to the shelf with books like We Were Here by Matt de la Peña, Merci Suárez Changes Gears by Meg Medina, and I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez
Twelve-year-old Quijana is a biracial girl, desperately trying to understand the changes that are going on in her life; her mother rarely gets home before bedtime, her father suddenly seems to be trying to get in touch with his Guatemalan roots (even though he never bothered to teach Quijana Spanish), she is about to start seventh grade in the Texas town where they live and she is worried about fitting in--and Quijana suspects that her parents are keeping secrets, because she is sure there is something wrong with her little brother, Memito, who is becoming increasingly hard to reach.-- Provided by Publisher.