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The other half of happy

Twelve-year-old Quijana is a biracial girl, desperately trying to understand the changes that are going on in her life; her mother rarely gets home before bedtime, her father suddenly seems to be trying to get in touch with his Guatemalan roots (even though he never bothered to teach Quijana Spanish...

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Main Author: Balcárcel, Rebecca (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: San Francisco : Chronicle Books, [2019]
Subjects:
Racially mixed children > Texas > Juvenile fiction.
Racially mixed families > Texas > Juvenile fiction.
Ethnicity > Juvenile fiction.
Identity (Psychology) > Juvenile fiction.
Brothers and sisters > Juvenile fiction.
Parent and child > Juvenile fiction.
Racially mixed people > Juvenile fiction.
Identity > Juvenile fiction.
Family life > Texas > Juvenile fiction.
Children's stories.
Texas > Juvenile fiction.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Quijana is a biracial girl, desperately trying to understand the changes that are going on in her life; her mother rarely gets home before bedtime, her father suddenly seems to be trying to get in touch with his Guatemalan roots (even though he never bothered to teach Quijana Spanish), she is about to start seventh grade in the Texas town where they live and she is worried about fitting in--and Quijana suspects that her parents are keeping secrets, because she is sure there is something wrong with her little brother, Memito, who is becoming increasingly hard to reach.--
Physical Description: 317 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
ISBN: 9781452169989
1452169985
Author Notes: Rebecca Balcárcel received the Jane Kenyon Poetry Prize, and her work has appeared in journals such as the North American Review . She is an associate professor of English at Tarrant County College. She lives in Bedford, Texas.

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