Open mic : riffs on life between cultures in ten voices / edited by Mitali Perkins. - First edition. - Massachusetts: Candlewicks Press, 2013. - xiii, 127 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Becoming Henry Lee / Why I won't be watching the Last Airbender movie / Talent Show / Voilą! / Three-pointer / Like me / Confessions of a black geek / Under Berlin / Brotherly love / Lexicon / David Yoo -- Gene Luen Yang -- Cherry Cheva -- Debbie Rigaud -- Mitali Perkins -- Varian Johnson -- Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich -- G. Neri -- Francisco X. Stork -- Naomi Shihab Nye.

Shares stories about growing up in diverse homes or communities, from an Asian youth who gains temporary popularity by making up a false background, to a biracial girl whose father clears subway seats by calmly sitting between two prejudiced women.

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Race--Social aspects--Juvenile literature.
Race relations--Juvenile literature.

HT1521 / OPE 2013

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