![]() When vandals paint racist slurs targeting Black, Asian, and Jewish people on the walls of the gym in Junie’s middle school, she is faced with a choice. So she tries to hide in the crowd, to make herself invisible, suffering emotional trauma in ways that she is yet unaware of. Though Junie and her brother were born in the United States, Junie feels that, according to some people, she’ll never be truly American. The siblings never told their parents, knowing that their mother, a passionate lawyer, would confront the offenders, their parents, and school authorities and cause a scene. ![]() Twelve-year-old Junie Kim’s middle school classes are about to begin and already she is “filled with that horrible empty-stomach crampy feeling of dread.” The year before at the school bus stop, she and her older brother, Justin, had suffered racist slurs because of their Korean heritage. ![]()
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