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This Side of Home

Renee Watson

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens

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From New York Times bestselling, Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Award-winning author Renée   Watson comes a captivating and poignant coming-of-age urban novel  about  sisters, friends, and what it means to embrace change. 
 
Maya   Younger and her identical twin sister, Nikki, have always agreed on  the  important things. Friends. Boys. School. They even plan to attend  the  same historically African American college. 
But nothing can always remain the same. 
 
As   their Portland neighborhood goes from rough-and-tumble to   up-and-coming, Maya feels her connection to Nikki and their community   slipping away. Nikki spends more time at trendy coffee shops than   backyard barbecues, and their new high school principal is more   committed to erasing the neighborhood's "ghetto" reputation than   honoring its history. Home doesn't feel like home anymore. As Maya   struggles to hold on to her black heritage, she begins to wonder with   whom--or where--she belongs. Does growing up have to mean growing  apart?
Available since: 02/03/2016.
Print length: 250 pages.

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