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Call Number: J Fiction / Mead, Alice
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Youth level.
Eighth grader Linda Berati struggles to understand who she is within the context of her mother's secrecy about the family background, her discomfort with her old girlfriends, her involvement with the family problems of her Cuban-American friend Ramon, and an opportunity to attend a school for "free spirits" like herself.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.
Year Published: 2005
Description: 154 p. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0374380473 :
SUBJECTS
Immigrants -- Fiction.
Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Fiction.
Self-perception -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.