The Other Half of My Heart, (Paperback)

from abbylibrarian

Biracial twin sisters Keira and Minerva don't look anything alike. Keira is dark-skinned like her African-American mother and Minnie has blue eyes and light skin like her white father. Growing up in a small Washington State town, Keira is the one who always feels different and sometimes wrong. Bu...

from KimJD

(from July 2010 SLJ)Eleven-year-old twins Keira and Minni are used to the funny looks their "chessboard family" receives: Keira takes after their black mother and Minni takes after their white father. In spite of their differences in appearance and personality, the girls share a bond that they ar...

from dylemon

For me, this novel captured what it feels like to live in a biracial family. There is, in a sense, a societal demand to "choose" to identify yourself as one race. The scene where the two sisters are treated differently when dress shopping hit home for me.

from jothebookgirl

Sundee Frasier did a wonderful job of developing the characters of Grandma Johnson, Kiera and Minni. This was a pretty tough topic to cover and she did it well. The story is about twins who have a white father and a black mother. The twins are born 7 minutes apart and Minni looks white and Kiera,...

from skstiles612

Minnie and Keira are twins. They were born only seven minutes apart. However, Minni was born with reddish blond hair and white skin like her daddy. Keira was born with "cinnamon-brown" skin and dark curly hair like her mother. The girls are sent from Washington to North Caroline to visit their gr...