{"id":3738,"date":"2003-10-17T17:53:44","date_gmt":"2003-10-17T21:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=3738"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:49:14","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:49:14","slug":"half-and-half-by-lensey-namioka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/half-and-half-by-lensey-namioka\/","title":{"rendered":"Half and Half by Lensey Namioka [in AsianWeek]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2003\/10\/Half-and-Half.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-31784\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2003\/10\/Half-and-Half.jpg\" alt=\"Half and Half\" width=\"306\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a>In order to sign up for the dancing class at the local recreation center \u2013 so it can get government funding \u2013 Fiona Cheng has to indicate her race. Being Scottish from her mother\u2019s side and Chinese from her father\u2019s side, Fiona can\u2019t comfortably check either \u201cwhite\u201d or \u201cAsian.\u201d But she doesn\u2019t want to feel like an outsider and check \u201cother.\u201d So who is the true Fiona? The lovely Chinese maiden who graces the cover of her father\u2019s latest book or the Scottish Highland dancer who saves her grandparents\u2019 troupe\u2019s performance? It\u2019s up to Fiona to come to terms with who she really is \u2013 for herself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/asianweek-2003-10-17-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;New and Notable,&#8221; <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, October 17, 2003<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Middle Grade<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2003<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3168\" title=\"Half and Half\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/06\/half-and-half.jpg\" alt=\"Half and Half\" width=\"128\" height=\"188\" \/>In order to sign up for the dancing class at the local recreation center \u2013 so it can get government funding \u2013 Fiona Cheng has to indicate her race. Being Scottish from her mother\u2019s side and Chinese from her father\u2019s side, Fiona can\u2019t comfortably check either \u201cwhite\u201d or \u201cAsian.\u201d But she doesn\u2019t want to feel like an outsider and check \u201cother.\u201d So who is the true Fiona? The lovely Chinese maiden who graces the cover of her father\u2019s latest book or the Scottish Highland dancer who saves her grandparents\u2019 troupe\u2019s performance? It\u2019s up to Fiona to come to terms with who she really is \u2013 for herself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/asianweek-2003-10-17-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;New and Notable,&#8221; <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, October 17, 2003<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Middle Grade<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2003<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,6,197,30,6535],"tags":[3598,6608,58,59,10,135,4418,51,4419,145,39],"class_list":["post-3738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chinese-american","category-fiction","category-hapa","category-middle-grade-readers","category-repost","tag-asianweek","tag-bookdragon","tag-coming-of-age","tag-cultural-exploration","tag-family","tag-grandparents","tag-half-and-half","tag-identity","tag-lensey-namioka","tag-mixed-race-issues","tag-parent-child-relationship"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Half and Half by Lensey Namioka [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/half-and-half-by-lensey-namioka\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Half and Half by Lensey Namioka [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In order to sign up for the dancing class at the local recreation center \u2013 so it can get government funding \u2013 Fiona Cheng has to indicate her race. 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