Take Me with You
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Hopes of adoption test the friendship of two girls-one biracial-in a lyrical novel touching on themes of identity and the meaning of home. Pina and Susanna. Susanna and Pina. For as long as they've lived at the Istituto di Ges Bambino -- a home for babies abandoned after the War -- they have been best friends. As children, they played rag dolls under the watchful eyes of the nuns and hide-and-seek among the lemon trees on the rooftop terrazzo overlooking Naples. But now strangers are coming to the chiesa, couples hoping to adopt children. Susanna thinks Pina -- pale, pretty Pina with her gleaming yellow braid -- will be adopted at once. Susanna, on the other hand, is a mulatta. Her father was an American soldier, a nero. No Italian has hair or skin like hers. But when a surprise visitor comes to the istituto just to see Susanna, will the friends be separated after all? Or will a miracle make both of their dreams come true?
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0763637394
ISBN13:9780763637392
Release Date:March 2010
Publisher:Candlewick Press (MA)
Length:176 Pages
Weight:0.55 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.6" x 7.2"
Age Range:10 years and up
Grade Range:Grade 5 and higher
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