Sundee Tucker Frazier
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Twin daughters of interracial parents, eleven-year-olds Keira and Minna have very different skin tones and personalities, but it is not until their African American grandmother enters them in the Miss Black Pearl Pre-Teen competition in North Carolina that red-haired and pale-skinned Minna realizes what life in their small town in the Pacific Northwest has been like for her more outgoing, darker-skinned sister.
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Fifth-grader Cleo Edison Oliver is full of money-making ideas, and her fifth-grade Passion Project is no different--but things get more complicated when she has to keep her business running, be a good listener when her best friend needs her, and deal with the bully teasing her about being adopted at the same time.
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Freshman Melvin Robinson is one of only two Black students in his 1950s Spokane, Washington high school. He also has a stutter which has worsened since a bully targeted him. His new friend Lenny, a Jewish jazz saxophonist who lives above a segregated club, encourages Melvin to talk to his crush Millie and join him in trying out for a local television variety show. As Melvin's confidence grows, he learns to use his voice to speak up when it matters...
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Successful businesswoman Fortune A. Davies has announced a new website where "kidpreneurs" can upload ads for their businesses and Cleo and her friend Caylee are sure this is the their big break to get funding for their personalized barrettes, Passion Clips--but producing an internet ad using their classmates is proving difficult, and Cleo is further distracted by her desire to find her birth parents.