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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (2008), Hardcover, 272 pages
Description
Adopted by white parents and sent to an exclusive Connecticut girls' school where she is the only black student, fourteen-year-old Lahni Schuler feels like an outcast, particularly when her parents separate, but after attending a local church where she hears gospel music for the first time, she finds her voice.
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LibraryThing member mjsbooks
Lahni Schuler is an African American girl adopted by a white couple who are going through a divorce. She finds both a sense of identity and a sense of healing by joining a gospel choir. Lahni is a well-drawn character and Wilson effectively portrays the nerve-wracking excitement of live performance.
LibraryThing member ShouldIReadIt
Lahni has never thought of her life as being complicated until the end of her middle school year at her exclusive girls school. She was adopted by white parents as a baby but, as the only African American student, Lahni feels out of place. She has never spent time with other African Americans, and
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with her parents going through a divorce, she begins to question who she is and her role in her life as well as their lives. When she is entered in a singing competition at her school, she joins a local church choir to improve her voice. Through her singing with the choir, she discovers more than just a newfound love for singing - she finds out she is more than an African American girl with white parents. She learns that she is important, she belongs, and nobody is going to bring her down. A beautiful story of a young girl finding out she is more than she ever gave herself credit for, and can do more than she ever thought she could do. Show Less
LibraryThing member SamMusher
Not impressed, sadly. I didn't believe any of the character growth, of Lahni or any of the supporting cast. Why did the church choir fall so in love with Lahni? Who were her parents and what were their motivations for anything? Why are Katie and Lahni friends? I've taught at a private girls' school
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myself for 10 years, and none of the girls' dialogue rang true. I haven't seen cross-racial adoption come in many books, so I'm sorry this one didn't work for me. Show Less
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Original publication date
2008
Physical description
272 p.; 8.3 inches
ISBN
1416939954 / 9781416939955