She's always dreamed of playing pro baseball just like her father, but can she really do it? Does she truly fit in with her white family? Who were her biological parents? What does it mean to be black? If she's going to find answers, Alex has to come to terms with her adoption, her race, and the dreams she thought would always guide her. Suddenly, Alex begins to question who she really is. Read more Price: US 6.02 Buy It Now Add to cart Add to Watchlist Breathe easy. Condition: Good Pages can have notes/highlighting. She has been a Bush Artist and McKnight Writing Fellow. See No Color by Gibney, Shannon by Gibney, Shannon HC Good Be the first to write a review.

She is faculty in English at Minneapolis College, where she teaches writing. But now, things are changing: she meets Reggie, the first black guy who's wanted to get to know her she discovers the letters from her biological father that her adoptive parents have kept from her and her changing body starts to affect her game. Shannon Gibney is a writer, educator, activist, and the author of See No Color, a young adult novel that won the Minnesota Book Award in Young People’s Literature. Her novel See No Color, drawn from her life as a transracial adoptee, was hailed by Kirkus as an. What mattered was that she was a star on the diamond, where her father, a former Major Leaguer, coached her hard and counted on her to make him proud. Shannon Gibney is an author and university professor. Despite some teasing, being a biracial girl in a wealthy white family hasn't been that big a deal. She's adopted.Īlex has had a comfortable childhood in Madison, Wisconsin. An exceptionally accomplished debut.' - Kirkus, starred reviewįor as long as she can remember, sixteen-year-old Alex Kirtridge has known two things about herself: She's a stellar baseball player. 'Transracial adoption is never oversimplified, airbrushed, or sentimentalized, but instead, it's portrayed with bracing honesty as the messy institution it is: rearranging families, blending cultural and biological DNA, loss and joy.

See no color by shannon gibney