K. Nieber |

Being adopted and Chinese is easy for eleven-year-old Lizzy.

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Or it was until Lizzy’s “heart” mother signs her up for a Chinese dance class, so Lizzy could get in touch with her roots. Things go from annoying to heart-breaking as her former crib mate from their orphanage abandons her for the real Chinese girls in their dance class. The dancers all agree. Lizzy is a banana – yellow on the outside and white on the inside. Lizzy’s fifth-grade teacher makes her draw a family tree, but Lizzy, abandoned at birth, doesn’t have a clue who to put on her picture. The new kid on her soccer team calls her slant eyes. Jeez. No one has ever called her that before.

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It's time to set them all straight about who she is.