Half and Half [Paperback]

FIONA CHENG IS half and half: Her father is Chinese and her mother is Scottish. Fiona looks more like her father than her mother, so people always expect her to be more interested in her Chinese half than her Scottish half. Lately even Fiona’s confused about who she really is.

“A realistic, gentle and funny tale.”—Detroit News & Free Press

“Readers will identify with Fiona’s struggle to fit in.”—Publishers WeeklyPraise forTies That Bind, Ties That Break:
“This colorful novel has the force and intensity of a memoir.”
–Publishers Weekly, StarredLensey Namiokais the author ofTies that Bind, Ties that Breakand its companion,An Ocean Apart, a World Away; as well as four books about theYang family, includingYang the Youngest and His Terrible EarandYang the Third and Her Impossible Family. The author lives in Seattle, WA.one

“Your form isn’t complete, Fiona,” said the recreations director. “I can’t let you enroll in the folk dancing class until it’s completely filled in.”

The recreation center is located at a park not far from my school. For years the center had been used for adult education classes, such as pottery and language lessons. Recently the building was remodeled and expanded, and they started having classes for young people, too.

When I heard there were folk dancing classes, I immediately went over to enroll. I had never filled out one of their forms before, and I didn’t know what the director meant by the form not being completely filled in. I looked it over again.

Name:Fiona Cheng
Age:11
Address:2134 Hillside Blvd. E.
Seattle, WA
Class:Folk Dancing

It looked good to me.

“You didn’t check a box for race,” she said. “To get government funding, we have to let them know how malS_