Twelve year old Mimi has just moved from California to a small town in Vermont. The year is 1969, and Mimi struggles to figure out where she belongs. As the half-Black and half-Japanese new girl in school who wants to be an astronaut, Mimi wonders if she will ever be happy in her new town, and if she and her family will ever be accepted.
Have students make text connections by identifying their favorite quote from Full Cicada Moon and describing what it means to them.
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Favorite Quote from Full Cicada Moon by Marilyn Hilton
Welcome
Oh yes. We've been expecting you.
Maybe she was expecting a new girl from California, but not expectingme.
When Mimi thinks this, she realizes that the secretary knew that a new girl was expected from California, but Mimi was not at all what she pictured. This part is important because it shows one of the many subtle ways that Mimi encountered racism, and that even though it wasn't intentional, it was still hurtful.
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