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01 Nov / I Wanna Be Your Shoebox by Cristina García [in Bloomsbury Review]

I Wanna Be Your ShoeboxEighth-grader Yumi Ruíz-Hirsch, a Japanese/Cuban/Jewish American hapa, has a life as complicated as her heritage. Her no-nonsense mother’s got a new boyfriend. Her rock-‘n-roll songwriter father hasn’t outgrown adolescence. Her friends all seem to be going in different directions. But worst of all, her beloved grandfather is sick … really, really sick. And she’s got to somehow figure out how her world is going to move on without him.

Review: “TBR’s Editors’ Favorites of 2008,” The Bloomsbury Review, November/December 2008

Readers: Middle Grade, Young Adult

Published: 2008

By Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Cuban American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers Tags > Bloomsbury Review, BookDragon, Coming-of-age, Cristina Garcia, Family, Friendship, Girl power, Grandparents, I Wanna Be Your Shoebox, Identity, Illness, Mixed-race issues, Parent/child relationship
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