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For Black girls like me

Lockington, Mariama (author.).

Summary: I am a girl but most days I feel like a question mark. Makeda June Kirkland is eleven years old, adopted, and black. Her parents and big sister are white, and even though she loves her family very much, Keda often feels left out. When Keda's family moves from Maryland to New Mexico, she leaves behind her best friend, Lena - the only other adopted black girl she knows - for a new life. In New Mexico, everything is different. At home, Keda's sister is too cool to hang out with her anymore, and at school, she can't seem to find one true friend. Through it all, Keda can't help wondering: What would it feel like to grow up with a family that looks like me? In this deeply felt coming-of-age story about family, sisterhood, music, race, and identity, Mariama J. Lockington draws on some of the emotional truths from her own experiences growing up with an adoptive white family. For Black Girls Like Me is for anyone who has ever asked themselves: How do you figure out where you are going if you don't know where you came from? --

Item details

  • ISBN: 9780374308049
  • ISBN: 0374308047
  • ISBN: 9780374308063
  • Physical Description: print
    321 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2019.

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note: Spring -- Summer -- Fall.
Target Audience Note:
HL500L Lexile
Decoding: 5 (very hard) Vocabulary: 5 (very hard) Sentences: 4 (hard) Patterns: 5 (very hard) Lexile.
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader MG 3.5 7.0.
Accelerated Reader AR Middle grade 3.5 7.0 502853.

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      Athens-Clarke County Library 		J LOCKINGT ( Send Text)
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      Athens-Clarke County Library 		J LOCKINGT ( Send Text)
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