Thirteen-year-old Lauren, a Korean-American adoptee, is tired of being called “slant” and “gook,” and longs to have plastic surgery on her eyes, but when her father finds out about her wish–and a long-kept secret about her mother’s death is revealed–Lauren starts to question some of her own assumptions.

• ISBN: 9781571316813
• Author: Williams, Laura E.
• Published: 2008, Milkweed Editions
• Themes: Adoption, Death, Prejudice and racism, School, Secret, Self acceptance, Young adult
• Descriptors: Intermediate (ages 9-14), Realistic Fiction, United States
• No. of pages: 149