Title:
Open mic : riffs on life between cultures in ten voices / edited by Mitali Perkins.
ISBN:
9780763658663
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2013.
Physical Description:
xiii, 127 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Awards Note:
Junior Library Guild selection
Contents:
Becoming Henry Lee / David Yoo -- Why I won't be watching the Last Airbender movie / Gene Luen Yang -- Talent Show / Cherry Cheva -- Voilà! / 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.
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.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.0 3.0 160659.
Reading Counts RC 6-8 5.3 8 Quiz: 61396.
Audience:
810L Lexile
OCLC Number:
ocn857290312
Availability:
Farmington~1
