Red, White, and Whole

✍ Scribed by Recorded Books, Inc.;LaRocca, Rajani

• Publisher: Quill Tree Books
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 82 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 006304742X

✦ Synopsis

A heartbreakingly hopeful #ownvoices novel in verse about an Indian American girl whose life is turned upside down when her mother is diagnosed with leukemia.

Reha feels torn between two worlds: school, where she's the only Indian American student, and home, with her family's traditions and holidays. But Reha's parents don't understand why she's conflicted--they only notice when Reha doesn't meet their strict expectations. Reha feels disconnected from her mother, or Amma, although their names are linked--Reha means "star" and Punam means "moon"--but they are a universe apart.

Then Reha finds out that her Amma is sick. Really sick.

Reha, who dreams of becoming a doctor even though she can't stomach the sight of blood, is determined to make her Amma well again. She'll be the perfect daughter, if it means saving her Amma's life.

**From Indies Introduce author Rajani LaRocca comes a radiant story about the ties that...

✦ Subjects

Sick parents -- Juvenile fiction