Half and Half

by Lensey Namioka (Author)

Half and Half
Reading Level: 4th − 5th Grade

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

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

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Praise for Ties That Bind, Ties That Break
"This colorful novel has the force and intensity of a memoir."
-Publishers Weekly, Starred
Lensey Namioka
Lensey Namioka is the author of Ties that Bind, Ties that Break and its companion, An Ocean Apart, a World Away; as well as four books about theYang family, including Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear and Yang the Third and Her Impossible Family. The author lives in Seattle, WA.
Classification
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ISBN-13
9780440418900
Lexile Measure
800
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Yearling Books
Publication date
November 09, 2004
Series
-
BISAC categories
JUV013000 - Juvenile Fiction | Family | General
Library of Congress categories
Family
Identity
Family life
Racially mixed people
Chinese Americans
Scottish Americans

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