You're adopted? Your family is Italian? You don't look Italian. When a new Korean family moves into the neighborhood it gets Joseph thinking about his Korean birth mother. At thirteen he's starting to question his identity and chafing at his father's idea of traditions - somehow they don't feel like his traditions. Joseph begins a search for his birth mother so he won't feel like a "fake Korean" or any other kind of fake.
Kimchi and Calamari by Rose Kent is a coming of age story about an adopted boy's search for his identity.
For 6th-8th graders.
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