I Wanna Be Your Shoebox

Because Yumi RuÍz-Hirsch has grandparents from Japan, Cuba, and Brooklyn, her mother calls her a poster child for the twenty-first century. Yumi would laugh if only her life wasn''t getting as complicated as her heritage. All of a sudden she''s starting eighth grade with a girl who collects tinfoil and a boy who dresses like a squid. Her mom''s found a new boyfriend, and her punk-rock father still...