THE OTHER HALF OF MY HEART By: Sundee T. Frazier
Once in a great while a book comes along that sort of jolts you into thinking could this be possible? Keira and Minna are twin daughters of an interracial couple. When the girls are born they even made the news. For Keira is black like Mama and Minna is white like her Daddy. They live in the Pacific Northwest and are best of friends. Then their African American grandmother wants to enter then in the Miss Black Pearl Pre-Teen competition in North Carolina. Minna Finally realizes how different she is in this community. Will they be able to face those differences? Ages 9-12 $16.99 Delacorte Press