num_pages: 320
description: When Lily was three her mother put her up for adoption then disappeared without a trace. Or so Lily was told. Lily grew up in her new family and tried to forget her past. But with the Korean War raging and fear of commies everywhere Lilys Asian heritage makes her a target. She is sick of the racism she faces a fact her adoptive parents wont take seriously. For Lily war is everywherethe dinner table the halls at school and especially within her own skin.Then her brainy little brother Ralph finds a box hidden in the attic. In it are a baffling jumble of broken antiquesclues to her past left by her Gone Mom. Lily and Ralph attempt to match these fragments with rare Chinese artifacts at the art museum. She encounters the artistic genius Elliot James who attracts and infuriates Lily as he tries to draw out the beauty of her golden heritage. Will Lily summon the courage to confront her own remarkable creation story? The real story and one she can know only by coming face-to-face with the truth long buried within the people she thought she knew best.
language: English
title: Girl in Reverse
publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books