Barbara Stuber
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
"Lillian Firestone is Chinese, but the kids in her 1951 Kansas City high school can't separate her from the North Koreans that America is at war with. Sick of the racism she faces at school and frustrated that her adoptive white family just sees it as 'teasing,' Lily begins to search for her birth mother"--
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
680L
Description
In Missouri in 1926, fifteen-year-old Iris Baldwin discovers what family truly means when her father hires her out for the summer as a companion to a country doctor's invalid mother.