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11-02-11 - Black, White, Other.

Black,-White,-OtherNina never thought much about herbiracial heritage until her parents divorced. Conflicted and alone, Nina turnsto the story of her great-great grandmother who escaped from slavery, hoping tofind wisdom and direction in her predecessor's tale.  Click here for Care's interview with Joan Steinau Lester, author of "Black, White, Other", this week's Wednesday Bookmark, brought to you by Salem Storehouse!

 

 

 

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Fifteen year old Nina Armstrong's world is all topsy turvy. Her parents are recently divorced.  She lives with her mother who's white and her brother Jimi lives with their father who's black. Suddenly Nina's friends are trying to make her choose who she'll be friends with.  Will she choose black or will she choose white? Who will she identify with? Or will she embrace her otherness and live witheveryone? As Nina learns the truth about herself she takes readers on a journey of self-discovery. Are you only the skin you are born in? Or is your true self hidden beneath waiting from you to discover it?

 



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