Blended

＂’You’re so exotic!!’ ’You look so unusual.’ ’But what are you really?’ Eleven-year-old Isabella - whose father is black and mother is white -- is used to these kinds of comments, but it doesn’t mean she likes them. And now that her parents are divorced (and getting along worse than ever), Isabella feels like a push-me-pull-me toy. Being split between Mom and Dad is more than switching houses, switching nicknames, switching backpacks: It’s switching identities. If you’re only seen as half of this and half of that, how can you ever feel whole?＂--

Sharon M. Draper is a three-time New York Times bestselling author and a recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award honoring her significant and lasting contribution to writing for teens. She has received the Coretta Scott King Award for both Copper Sun and Forged by Fire, and was awarded the Charlotte Huck Award for Stella by Starlight. Her novel Out of My Mind has won multiple awards and was a New York Times bestseller for over three years, and Blended has also been a New York Times bestseller. She lives in Florida, where she taught high school English for twenty-five years and was named National Teacher of the Year. Visit her at SharonDraper.com.