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Don't Ask Me Where I'm From

By Jennifer De Leon
 
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Hardcover edition

Publisher Simon & Schuster Imprint Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy ISBN

9781534438248

Don't Ask Me Where I'm From

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Discrimination: Racial Insensitivity/Racism,Discrimination: Sexism,Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco: Reference or Discussion,Language: Racial or Ethnic Epithet/Slur,Language: Strong Language,Sexual Content: Mild Sexual Content/Themes,Violence: Domestic/Physical Abuse,Violence: Mild Violence

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 isn’t always a barrier. It can be a foundation for something better. And Liliana must choose: Use this foundation as a platform to speak her truth, or risk crumbling under its weight.
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