Don't ask me where I'm from, Jennifer De Leon
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Don't ask me where I'm from, Jennifer De Leon
Language
eng
Index
no index present
resource.interestAgeLevel
Ages 14 up, Atheneum
resource.interestGradeLevel
Grades 10-12, Atheneum
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Don't ask me where I'm from
Responsibility statement
Jennifer De Leon
Summary
"Liliana Cruz does what it takes to fit in at her new nearly all-white school, but when family secrets come out and racism at school gets worse than ever, she must decide what she believes in and take a stand"--, Provided by publisherIt's fine that Lilliana's best friend, Jade, is all caught up in her new boyfriend lately. It's fine that her inner-city high school is disorganized and underfunded. It's fine that her father took off again, and she's left with her increasingly crazy mom, her heathen little brothers. But it turns out before he left, he signed Liliana up for a school desegregation program called METCO. At Westburg, Liliana-- half-Guatemalan and half-Salvadorian-- must struggle with being a minority. The only way to survive is to whiten up. When she discovers the truth about her father-- he's undocumented and he's been deported back to Guatemala-- nothing is fine. And Lili is done changing who she is, denying her culture and where she came from. -- adapted from jacket and Goodreads info
Target audience
adolescent
resource.variantTitle
Do not ask me where I am from
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Creator
Subject
- School integration -- Fiction
- Illegal immigration
- Schools -- Fiction
- High schools -- Fiction
- School integration -- Juvenile fiction
- Social problem fiction
- Families -- Juvenile fiction
- Racially mixed people -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Racism -- Fiction
- Secrets -- Juvenile fiction
- Secrets -- Fiction
- Boston (Mass.) -- Juvenile fiction
- Racism -- Juvenile fiction
- Racially mixed people -- Juvenile fiction
- Boston (Mass.) -- Fiction
- High schools -- Juvenile fiction
- Hispanic Americans -- Fiction
- Children of noncitizens -- Fiction
- Children of noncitizens -- Juvenile fiction
- Hispanic Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Family life -- Fiction
- School fiction
Content
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- Classification1
- Creator1
- Genre3
- Subject23
- School integration -- Fiction
- Illegal immigration
- Schools -- Fiction
- High schools -- Fiction
- School integration -- Juvenile fiction
- Social problem fiction
- Families -- Juvenile fiction
- Racially mixed people -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Racism -- Fiction
- Secrets -- Juvenile fiction
- Secrets -- Fiction
- Boston (Mass.) -- Juvenile fiction
- Racism -- Juvenile fiction
- Racially mixed people -- Juvenile fiction
- Boston (Mass.) -- Fiction
- High schools -- Juvenile fiction
- Hispanic Americans -- Fiction
- Children of noncitizens -- Fiction
- Children of noncitizens -- Juvenile fiction
- Hispanic Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Family life -- Fiction
- School fiction
- Content1
- Author1