{"product_id":"veronica-i-heard-your-moms-black-9781945875007","title":"Veronica, I Heard Your Mom's Black","description":"\u003cp\u003eVeronica's mother is black, and her father is white, but she looks entirely white, not biracial. People at school start making a big deal about it, but nobody cared before she got to eighth grade. Why do they think it's their business? Her world is changed forever. But how does she find herself in everybody else's confusion? In all the chaos?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEven Veronica's best friend, Katie, who's white, acts weird sometimes, like when a black girl from school comes to the house to get her hair cut by Katie's mom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I didn't know my mom cut black people's hair,\" Katie said.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis same black girl wanted Veronica to join her friends at lunch when she learned Veronica was black. Veronica wonders why this girl had never spoken to her before. Was it just because she's black that she wanted to be her friend now? And why had she called Katie a white-ass and huffed away when Veronica invited her to sit with them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEven the black girls in cooking class question Veronica's knowledge of greens and chitlins.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Greens is black folk's food,\" they tell her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs this her new life: explaining her racial background to everybody, black and white, including this boy who likes her. The first boy to like her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe doesn't know what to say when he repeats some racist things his dad told him. Is he a racist, too? Will he feel differently about her when she tells him the truth, which she has to do sooner than later \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Two Sisters Writing and Publishing LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/22\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781945875007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.22d","brand":"Catherine M. Greenspan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36672173637788,"sku":"9781945875007","price":8.07,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_f0128c2d-e155-4d42-a1ab-77cb6b4a96f8.jpg?v=1603927123","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/veronica-i-heard-your-moms-black-9781945875007","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}