I wanna be your shoebox
By: Cristina Garcia.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781416939283
Subjects: Identity -- Fiction; Racially mixed people -- Fiction; Grandfathers -- Fiction; Family -- Fiction; California, Southern -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: I want to be your shoebox
Description: Thirteen-year-old, clarinet-playing, Southern California surfer, Yumi Ruiz-Hirsch, comes from a complex family--her father is Jewish-Japanese, her mother is Cuban, and her parents are divorced--and when her grandfather Saul is diagnosed with terminal cancer, Yumi asks him to tell her his life story, which helps her to understand her own history and identity.