Seeing Emily

Readers will instantly relate to the heady, messy experience of being a teenager in this poignant novel in free verse, which Publishers Weekly called "highly visual and eloquently wrought" and Kirkus called "finely crafted." Emily, a Chinese American teen, is determined to reinvent herself outside the mold in which her family and friends have always viewed her. Her interest in a sexy new student propels her to try out different versions of herself. In the end her art may provide the key to understanding who she is.

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