The other half of my heart

Resource Information

The work The other half of my heart represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Jacksonville Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The other half of my heart

Statement of responsibility

Sundee T. Frazier

Creator

• Frazier, Sundee Tucker, 1968-

Subject

• African Americans -- Juvenile literature
• Beauty contests -- Juvenile fiction
• Beauty contests -- Juvenile literature
• Grandmothers -- Juvenile fiction
• Grandmothers -- Juvenile literature
• Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Juvenile fiction
• Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Juvenile literature
• Prejudices -- Juvenile fiction
• African Americans -- Juvenile fiction
• Racially mixed people -- Juvenile fiction
• Racially mixed people -- Juvenile literature
• Sisters -- Juvenile fiction
• Sisters -- Juvenile literature
• Twins -- Juvenile fiction
• Twins -- Juvenile literature
• Prejudices -- Juvenile literature

Genre

• Juvenile literature
• Juvenile fiction

Language

eng

Summary

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

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

Intended audience

• 009-012
• 750L

Intended audience source

Lexile

Interest level

MG

LC call number

PZ7.F8715

LC item number

Ot 2010

Literary form

fiction

Reading level

4.9

Study program name

Accelerated Reader

Target audience

pre adolescent