Kimchi & Calamari by Rose Kent
	List Price:   $15.99 Unit Price:   $12.79 You Save:   $3.20 (20%) ISBN-10:   0060837691 ISBN-13:   9780060837693 Publisher:   HarperCollins Category:   Middle School Pub. Date:   April 2007 Pages:   220 Format:   Hardcover Grades:   3 to 7
Description/Notes
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. Raised by an Italian family, a young Korean boy finds himself struggling with his social studies project dealing with ancestry and so opts to select a famous Korean athlete as his grandfather in order to complete the assignment, in a moving tale dealing with the issues of mixed-race heritage and cross-culture adoptions. 9-11 yrs.