The Way the Light Bends

✍ Scribed by Jensen, Cordelia

• Book ID: 109979445
• Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 1 MB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

A powerful novel in verse about fitting in, standing out, defining your own self-worth, and what it takes to keep a fracturing family whole.
Virtual twins Linc and Holly were once extremely close. But while artistic, creative Linc is her parents' daughter biologically, it's smart, popular Holly, adopted from Ghana as a baby, who exemplifies the family's high-achieving model of academic success.
Linc is desperate to pursue photography, to find a place of belonging, and for her family to accept her for who she is, despite her surgeon mother's constant disapproval and her growing distance from Holly. So when she comes up with a plan to use her photography interests and skills to do better in school--via a project based on Seneca Village, a long-gone village in the space that now holds Central Park, where people of all races lived together harmoniously--Linc is excited and determined to prove that her differences are assets, that she has what it takes to make...