Don't Ask Me Where I'm From

ISBN-10: 1534438254
ISBN-13: 9781534438255
Author: De Leon, Jennifer
Illustrated by: Garnu, Elena
Interest Level: 9-12
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Publication Date: July 2021

Copyright: 2020

Page Count: 352

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Interest Level

Grades 9-12

Reading Level

Lexile: HL590L
Accelerated Reader Level: 4.2
Accelerated Reader Points: 11.0

BISAC Subjects

YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Emigration & Immigration *

YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / New Experience *

Description
First-generation American LatinX Liliana Cruz does what it takes to fit in at her new nearly all-white school. But when family secrets spill out and racism at school ramps up, she must decide what she believes in and take a stand. Liliana Cruz is a hitting a wall-or rather, walls. There's the wall her mom has put up ever since Liliana's dad left-again. There's the wall that delineates Liliana's diverse inner-city Boston neighborhood from Westburg, the wealthy-and white-suburban high school she's just been accepted into. And there's the wall Liliana creates within herself, because to survive at Westburg, she can't just lighten up, she has to whiten up. So what if she changes her name? So what if she changes the way she talks? So what if she's seeing her neighborhood in a different way? But then light is shed on some hard truths: It isn't that her father doesn't want to come home-he can't...and her whole family is in jeopardy. And when racial tensions at school reach a fever pitch, the walls that divide feel insurmountable. But a wall i
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