Open mic : riffs on life between cultures in ten voices

Open mic : riffs on life between cultures in ten voices

(#1442NB4)

FollettBound Glued Candlewick Press, c2013, p2016

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Description: xiii, 129 pages : illustrations; 20 cm
Dewey: 818; Audience: Young Adult

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Introduction -- Becoming Henry Lee / David Yoo -- Why I won't be watching the Last Airbender movie / Gene Luen Yang -- Talent show / Cherry Cheva -- Voila! / 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. 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.

Product Details
  • Publisher: Candlewick Press
  • Publication Date: August 23, 2016
  • Format: FollettBound Glued
  • Edition: First paperback edition 2016.
  • Dewey: 818
  • Classifications: Nonfiction
  • Description: xiii, 129 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
  • Tracings: Perkins, Mitali, editor.
  • ISBN-10: 1-51813-316-9 (originally 0-7636-9095-3)
  • ISBN-13: 978-1-51813-316-9 (originally 978-0-7636-9095-3)
  • Follett Number: 1442NB4
  • Audience: Young Adult