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Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
Camino lives in the Dominican Republic, helping her Tía treat the ailments of the neighbors and dreaming of one day becoming a doctor. Yahaira lives in New York City, preoccupied with school, being a chess prodigy, and her girlfriend. They have no idea that they're sisters, separated by the lies their father told them as he secretly split his life between two families. But when he dies suddenly in a tragic airplane crash, the truth comes spilling out. It's hard enough to lose a father — but harder still to realize that you shared him with a sister you've never even met.
Like Acevedo's award-winning , this is a novel-in-verse that uses poetry to reach deep into the hearts of its characters. Camino and Yahaira live very different lives, but their words show how deeply they are
