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My Life As An Ice Cream Sandwich

Twelve-year-old Ebony-Grace Norfleet has lived with her beloved grandfather Jeremiah in Huntsville, Alabama ever since she was little. As one of the first black engineers to integrate NASA, Jeremiah has nurtured Ebony-Grace's love for all things outer space and science fiction — especially Star Wars and Star Trek. But in the summer of 1984, when trouble arises with Jeremiah, it's decided she'll spend a few weeks with her father in Harlem.

Harlem is an exciting and terrifying place for a sheltered girl from Hunstville, and Ebony-Grace's first instinct is to retreat into her imagination. But soon 126th Street begins to reveal that it has more in common with her beloved sci-fi adventures than she ever thought possible, and by summer's end, Ebony-Grace discovers that Harlem has a place for a girl whose eyes are always on the stars. National Book Award-finalist Ibi Zoboi, author of Pride and American Street, makes her middle-grade debut with a moving story of a girl finding her place in a world that's changing at warp speed.

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"Homesick, named 'Ice Cream Sandwich' by her peers ('Chocolate on the outside, vanilla on the inside'), and sporting superhero T-shirts, Ebony finds it impossible to fit in with neighborhood girls interested in double Dutch and Dapper Dan’s. Instead, she uses her 'imagination location' to create tales about rescuing her grandfather, the audacious Captain Fleet, a storyline illustrated in occasional unattributed comic strips.... Zoboi (American Street) excels at resurrecting 1980s Harlem in her middle grade debut, expertly sprinkling in nostalgia-fueled references to break dancing, rap battles, and the rise of female MCs." — Publishers Weekly

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Recommended Age 10 - 13
Author Ibi Zoboi
ISBN 0399187359
Publication Date Aug 27, 2019
Publisher Dutton Books for Young Readers
Language English