Kimchi and Calamari

Title: Kimchi and Calamari
Book List: Asian Voices in Teen Fiction, Teen Life: Middle School Stories
Published by: HarperCollins
Release Date: 04/01/2007
Author: Rose Kent
Genre: Teen
Pages: 220
ISBN13: 9780060837693

Kimchi and calamari. It sounds like a quirky food fusion of Korean and Italian cuisine, and it's exactly how Joseph Calderaro feels about himself. Why wouldn't an adopted Korean drummer-comic book junkie feel like a combo platter given:

(1) his face in the mirror
(2) his proud Italian family.

And now Joseph has to write an essay about his ancestors for social studies. All he knows is that his birth family shipped his diapered butt on a plane to the USA. End of story. But what he writes leads to a catastrophe messier than a table of shattered dishes—and self-discovery that Joseph never could have imagined.

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