![]() ![]() On one level Julia's struggle is one any middle schooler can relate too. Julia is so tangled up about how she feels about herself and her identity. ![]() Why should she be friends with these girls just because they were born in the same place? And why should she be interested in Chinese things simply because that's where she was born? Can't she be Irish and Italian too like her adopted parents? Avery and Becca are athletic and competitive. Avery and Becca eat Cheetos with chopsticks. Julia is not interested in her Chinese heritage. She's looking forward even less to journaling about the experience for the woman who organized all three of their adoptions can write about them. Julia is spending a week at camp with her "Chinese sisters" Avery and Becca, the two girls who were adopted from the same orphanage as Julia at the same time. Just Like Me is a wonderful story about friendship, cultural identity, adoption, and camp. ![]() This being the case I was excited to see that there was a new book coming from Cavanaugh this year. I can not tell you how many times she has read Always Abigail. Books by Nancy Cavanaugh are a hot commodity in the Painter house. ![]()
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