"'You're so exotic!!' 'You look so unusual.' 'But what are you really?' Eleven-year-old Isabella - whose father is black and mother is white -- is used to these kinds of comments, but it doesn't mean she likes them. And now that her parents are divorced (and getting along worse than ever), Isabella feels like a push-me-pull-me toy. Being split between Mom and Dad is more than switching houses, switching nicknames, switching backpacks: It's switching identities. If you're only seen as half of this and half of that, how can you ever feel whole?"--
