When Violet's father comes to pick her up at school, one of her classmates asks: How come your Dad is blue and you're not? Violet comes to appreciate the beauty of being different.
Racially mixed children
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Author:Duprey Stehlik, Tania, Vuleta Jovanovic, VanjaSummary: -
Author:Balcárcel, RebeccaSummary: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...
- Author:Ward, JesmynSummary:
The searing and profound odyssey of a Southern family. Confronting the realities of life in the rural South, Ward gives us an epochal story, a road novel through Mississippi's past and present that explores the bonds of family as tested...
- Author:Thompson, VictoriaSummary:
Called to Chinatown to deliver a baby, midwife Sarah Brandt soon helps search for a missing girl. But nobody seems to know where she is. Has she been sold to a brothel, or has she run off with a secret love?
- Author:Diggs, TayeSummary:
This program is read by Taye Diggs and features a bonus interview with his son, Walker Diggs. From Taye Diggs and Shane W. Evans comes Mixed Me!, another inspiring audiobook collaboration. Mom and Dad say I'm a blend of dark and...
- Author:Deen, NatashaSummary:
It's the third day of summer vacation, and Lark's halmoni--that's Korean for grandmother--has promised to take Lark and her twin brother, Connor, to the library. The only trouble is, they arrive to discover that Mrs....
- Author:Roy, LucindaSummary:
Growing up in crowded south London, Jacinta knows she is unusual: neither black nor white. But when her father dies, and her mother breaks down, Jacinta loses the protection of her family's love and must develop her own personal strengh...
- Author:Lemmie, AshaSummary:
A Good Morning America Book Club Pick and New York Times Bestseller! From debut author Asha Lemmie, “a lovely, heartrending story about love and loss, prejudice and pain, and the sometimes dangerous, always durable ties that link a...
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Author:Knight, CheleneSummary:From Vancouver-based writer Chelene Knight, Dear Current Occupant is a creative non-fiction memoir about home and belonging set in the 80s and 90s of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Using a variety of forms, Knight reflects on her...
- Author:Brown, Yvonne ShorterSummary:
Dead Woman Pickney chronicles Yvonne Shorter Brown’s life growing up in Jamaica between 1943 and 1965 and teaching in Canada from 1969. Told with stridency and humour, the stories include both personal experience and history. Taking up...
