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Draper, Sharon. BLENDED New York : Atheneum, [2018] IL 3-6 ISBN 9781442495005 2 booktalks |
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Booktalk #1 Isabella is an 11-year old girl who is a blend. First, there is the fact that her mom is white, and her dad is black. Then, there is the divorce. She gets tossed from parent to parent, and it seems like they just don't want her. Plus, people have always made comments on "Oh, how different you look", but it feels personal like they’re asking her "Are you black, or are you white?" When both parents start planning a wedding at the same time, she feels torn. Find out what Isabella does in Blended by Sharon Draper. (Prepared by:Kendall Crossley, Pleasant Knoll Middle School ) (South Carolina Book Awards, 2020-2021) Booktalk #2 Isabella’s life has drastically changed. First her parents got divorced, now they are both remarrying, and they seem to be fighting more than ever. She feels like her life is split in two between living at her mom’s house one week and then living at her dad’s the next week. Isabella’s mom is white, and her dad is black. She feels uncomfortable when total strangers ask what her race is. This makes her feel like she doesn’t fit in anywhere. Then one of Isabella’s classmates’ experiences racism at school. She is starting to realize how people judge you without even knowing you. Sometimes life isn’t fair. (Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award 2020-2021) |
| SUBJECTS: Racially mixed people -- Fiction. Race relations -- Fiction. Divorce -- Fiction. Family life -- Ohio -- Fiction. Ohio -- Fiction. |
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