Title: The other half of my heart
First published: 2010
Description: Twin daughters of interracial parents, eleven-year-olds Keira and Minna have very different skin tones and personalities, but it is not until their African American grandmother enters them in the Miss Black Pearl Pre-Teen competition in North Carolina that red-haired and pale-skinned Minna realizes what life in their small town in the Pacific Northwest has been like for her more outgoing, darker-skinned sister.
Subjects: Identity (Philosophical concept), Racially mixed people, Beauty contests, Juvenile fiction, Grandmothers, Fiction, Twins, Prejudices, Sisters, African Americans, Identity, Juvenile literature, Identity (Psychology), 1000blackgirlbooks, Children's fiction, Grandparents, fiction, Contests, fiction, Prejudices, fiction, African americans, fiction, Identity, fiction, Sisters, fiction, Twins, fiction, Racially mixed people, fiction, Beauty contests, fiction
LC classification: PZ7.F8715 Ot 2010