![]() Baseball is becoming a bit less of an obsession, she is becoming more sexually aware, and her difference–her blackness in a white culture–is becoming an issue. But while Alex is a nationally ranked center fielder, things are changing rapidly for the teen. I certainly did from this one.Īlex’s adoptive father is a former professional baseball player, and the sport is the center of the family. Even though I am not a member of the ideal audience for any young adult novel, I appreciate the effort of these books to create contexts for young readers. Alexandra Kirtridge, Gibney’s protagonist, is fifteen, a biracial child adopted in infancy by a white couple who also have two biological children–a structure that mirrors Gibney’s own upbringing in Ann Arbor. ![]() ![]() ![]() I’d never heard the phrase transracial adoptee until I read Shannon Gibney’s young adult novel, See No Color, yet it describes something I’ve known about for a long time. ![]()
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