Title: Slant
Description: Thirteen-year-old Lauren, a Korean-American adoptee, is tired of being called "slant" and "gook," and longs to have plastic surgery on her eyes, but when her father finds out about her wish--and a long-kept secret about her mother's death is revealed--Lauren starts to question some of her own assumptions.
Subjects: Self-confidence, Single-parent families, Fiction, Korean Americans, Adoption, Self-acceptance, Plastic Surgery, Juvenile fiction, Plastic surgery, Children's fiction, Self-acceptance, fiction, Self-confidence, fiction, Korean americans, fiction, Single-parent families, fiction, Adoption, fiction