Title: The importance of wings
Description: Although she longs to be an all-American girl, Roxanne, a timid, Israeli-born thirteen-year-old who idolizes Wonder Woman, begins to see things differently when the supremely confident Liat, also from Israel, moves into the "cursed house" next door and they become friends.
Subjects: Self-confidence, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Self-perception, Loss (Psychology), Israelis, Sisters, Identity (Psychology), Friendship, Identity, History, Children's fiction, Self-confidence, fiction, Self-perception, fiction, Identity, fiction, Friendship, fiction, Sisters, fiction, Staten island (new york, n.y.), fiction, Jews, fiction, Identity (Philosophical concept)