Eighth grader Linda Berati struggles to understand who she is within the context of her mother's secrecy about the family background, her discomfort with her old girlfriends, her involvement with the family problems of her Cuban-American friend Ramon, and an opportunity to attend a school for "free spirits" like herself.
year: 2005
call number/section: 1000
subjects: immigrants, juvenile fiction, identity (philosophical concept), self-perception, mothers and daughters, fiction