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Title Open mic : riffs on life between cultures in ten voices / edited by Mitali Perkins.

Publication Info. Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2013.

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Location Call No. Status
 Canton Public Library - Teen  TEEN 818.6 OPEN    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Young Adult  YA 818.6 OPEN    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xiii, 127 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Summary Shares stories about growing up in diverse homes or communities, from an Asian youth who gains temporary popularity by making up a false background, to a biracial girl whose father clears subway seats by calmly sitting between two prejudiced women.
Contents Becoming Henry Lee / David Yoo -- Why I won't be watching the Last Airbender movie / Gene Luen Yang -- Talent Show / Cherry Cheva -- VoilĂ ! / Debbie Rigaud -- Three-pointer / Mitali Perkins -- Like me / Varian Johnson -- Confessions of a black geek / Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich -- Under Berlin / G. Neri -- Brotherly love / Francisco X. Stork -- Lexicon / Naomi Shihab Nye.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.0 3.0 160659.
Subject Race -- Social aspects -- Juvenile literature.
Race relations -- Juvenile literature.
Added Author Perkins, Mitali, editor.
ISBN 9780763658663 reinforced
0763658669 reinforced
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