This Side of Home

Renee Watson

This Side of Home
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country
United Kingdom
Published
6 April 2017
Pages
352
ISBN
9781619639300

This Side of Home

Renee Watson

From New York Times bestselling, Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Award-winning author Renee
Watson comes a captivating and poignant coming-of-age urban novel about sisters, friends, and what it means to embrace change.

Maya
Younger and her identical twin sister, Nikki, have always agreed on the important things. Friends. Boys. School. They even plan to attend the same historically African American college. But nothing can always remain the same.

As
their Portland neighborhood goes from rough-and-tumble to
up-and-coming, Maya feels her connection to Nikki and their community
slipping away. Nikki spends more time at trendy coffee shops than
backyard barbecues, and their new high school principal is more
committed to erasing the neighborhood’s ghetto reputation than
honoring its history. Home doesn’t feel like home anymore. As Maya
struggles to hold on to her black heritage, she begins to wonder with
whom–or where–she belongs. Does growing up have to mean growing apart?

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