Color Me In by Natasha Diaz
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Color Me In by Natasha Diaz

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Color Me In

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by Natasha Diaz

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For those out there who seem to be half-accepted in some places, but have yet to find where they're seen as whole.

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    Marriage issues

Synopsis

Who is Nevaeh Levitz?

Growing up in an affluent suburb of New York City, sixteen-year-old Nevaeh Levitz never thought much about her biracial roots. When her Black mom and Jewish dad split up, she relocates to her mom's family home in Harlem and is forced to confront her identity for the first time.

Nevaeh wants to get to know her extended family, but one of her cousins can't stand that Nevaeh, who inadvertently passes as white, is too privileged, pampered, and selfish to relate to the injustices they face on a daily basis as African Americans. In the midst of attempting to blend their families, Nevaeh's dad decides that she should have a belated bat mitzvah instead of a sweet sixteen, which guarantees social humiliation at her posh private school. Even with the push and pull of her two cultures, Nevaeh does what she's always done when life gets complicated: she stays silent.

It's only when Nevaeh stumbles upon a secret from her mom's past, finds herself falling in love, and sees firsthand the prejudice her family faces that she begins to realize she has a voice. And she has choices. Will she continue to let circumstances dictate her path? Or will she find power in herself and decide once and for all who and where she is meant to be?

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Prologue

One. Two. Three. Four. Six. Seven.

Squirrels dart back and forth across the park, so I count them, anything to distract myself from how bad I have to pee. The line is taking forever, but I’m not going to have an accident, not when we finally made it up to the front.

“Excuse me?” a syrup-sweet voice asks my mom as we shuffle an inch closer to the tire swing. “My daughter is riding the swing alone too, and I’ve got to take the roast out of the slow cooker. . . . I was wondering if they could go together.”

“Sure,” my mom agrees.

The lady bends down to me, meeting my gaze with Cinderella- ball-gown-blue eyes.

“Well, aren’t you just the prettiest thing?” she says. “How old are you?”

I look up at my mom for permission to talk to a stranger. She nods.

“Six,” I say, holding up the fingers to confirm.

“Five,” my mom corrects.

The woman laughs like we told the best joke in the whole wide world.

“They’re such a riot at this age, aren’t they?” she says.

“Sure are,” my mom says, remaining friendly enough not to be rude, but monosyllabic so as not to invite further conversation.

The lady points at her daughter. “That’s my Samantha,” she says. I see a small, pale girl whose light yellow hair is so fine it looks like silver thread in the sun.

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Ruthless Vows
Dragonfruit
The Thirteenth Child
Gwen & Art Are Not in Love
Check & Mate
Legendborn
Foul Lady Fortune
Anna K Away
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A Wilderness of Stars
Warrior Girl Unearthed
Instructions for Dancing
The Boy in the Red Dress
Frankly in Love
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The Stars and the Blackness Between Them
Anna K
Patron Saints of Nothing
Yes No Maybe So
Permanent Record
I Have No Secrets
Saving Zoë
Symptoms of a Heartbreak
All of Us with Wings
The Boy and Girl Who Broke the World
Past Perfect Life
There's Something About Sweetie
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Night Music
Shout
The Deceivers
Top Ten
Salt to the Sea
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