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description: Because Yumi Ruz-Hirsch has grandparents from Japan Cuba and Brooklyn her mother calls her a poster child for the twenty-first century. Yumi would laugh if only her life wasnt getting as complicated as her heritage. All of a sudden shes starting eighth grade with a girl who collects tinfoil and a boy who dresses like a squid. Her mom's found a new boyfriend and her punk-rock father still can't sell a song. She's losing her house; shes losing her school orchestra. And worst of all she's losing her grandfather Saul.Yumi wishes everything could stay the same. But as she listens to Saul tell his story she learns that nobody ever asks you if you're ready for life to happen. It just happens. The choice is either to sit and watch or to join the dance.National Book Award finalist Cristina Garcas first middle-grade novel celebrates the chaotic crazy and completely amazing patchwork that makes up our lives.
language: English
title: I Wanna Be Your Shoebox
publisher: Listening Library (Audio)