| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
403 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
To seventeen-year-old Angie, who is mixed-race, Marilyn is her hardworking, devoted white single mother. When Marilyn was seventeen, she fell in love with Angie's father, James, who was African-American. Marilyn has always told her he died before she was born. When Angie discovers evidence of an uncle she's never met she starts to wonder: What if her dad is still alive, too? So she sets off on a journey to find him, hitching a ride to LA from her home in New Mexico with her ex-boyfriend, Sam. Along the way, she uncovers some hard truths about herself, her mother, and what truly happened to her father. |
| Audience |
880L Lexile |
| Reading Level |
Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.6 14 198255. |
| Subject(S) |
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
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Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Fiction.
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Single-parent families -- Fiction.
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Racially mixed people -- Fiction.
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Romance fiction.
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Mothers and daughters.
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African Americans.
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Multigenerational.
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Family secrets.
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Search for biological parents.
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Young adult fiction.
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Fiction.
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Family & relationships.
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Young adult .
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Fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780374305314 (hardcover) |
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0374305315 (hardcover) |
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