Title
The Other Half of My Heart
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pages
304 pages
Publication Year
2010
ISBN
9780385734400
Genre
realism
Topic
Racial Diversity; Interracial; mixed race; interracial family
Annotation
Twin daughters of interracial parents, eleven-year-olds Keira and Minna have very different skin tones and personalities, but it is not until their African American grandmother enters them in the Miss Black Pearl Pre-Teen competition in North Carolina that red-haired and pale-skinned Minna realizes what life in their small town in the Pacific Northwest has been like for her more outgoing, darker-skinned sister.
Grade Level
3-5, 6-8
Family Formation
mother and father
Main Character
twin girls
Diversity Impact
direct
Race/Ethnicities
African American / White
Keywords
twins; sisters; identity; prejudice; beauty contests; grandmothers
Item Type
Fiction
Format
novel
STARS Citation
Frazier, Sundee Tucker, "The Other Half of My Heart" (2010). DIVerse Families. 203.
http://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/203