Recommended Grades: K-3
Category: Identity, Culture, Inclusion and Belonging
Sub-topics: Identity; Multiracial family; Celebrating difference; Being yourself
Marisol McDonald has flaming red hair and nut-brown skin. Polka dots and stripes are her favorite combination. She prefers peanut butter and jelly burritos in her lunch box. And don’t even think of asking her to choose one or the other activity during recess—she’ll just be a soccer-playing pirate princess, thank you very much. To Marisol McDonald, these seemingly mismatched things make perfect sense together.Unfortunately, they don’t always make sense to everyone else. Other people wrinkle their nose in confusion at Marisol—can’t she just be one or the other? Try as she might, in a world where everyone tries to put this biracial,Peruvian-Scottish-American girl into a box, Marisol McDonald doesn’t match. And that’s just fine with her.
