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Half and Half

FIONA CHENG IS half and half: Her father is Chinese and her mother is Scottish. Fiona looks more like her father than her mother, so people always expect her to be more interested in her Chinese half than her Scottish half. Lately even Fiona's confused about who she really is.

"A realistic, gentle and funny tale."—Detroit News & Free Press

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"Readers will identify with Fiona's struggle to fit in."—Publishers Weekly

From the Hardcover edition.

Genre
literary fiction
Themes
diversityraceidentity
Setting
2000schinascotland
Audience
childrensmiddle gradeyoung adult
Length
short · 144 pages

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