This Place is Still Beautiful

XiXi Tian
(Young Adult Fiction - Y Tian)

Margaret looks just like their mother, while Annalie passes for white and looks like the father who abandoned them years ago, leaving their Chinese immigrant mama to raise the girls alone in their small, predominantly white Midwestern town. When their house is vandalized with a shocking racial slur, Margaret expects outrage. Instead, her sister and mother would rather move on. Especially once Margaret's own investigation begins to make members of their community uncomfortable.


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  • Call Him Jack: The Story of Jackie Robinson, Black Freedom Fighter


  • Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves


  • The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person


  • This Book is Anti-Racist


  • Persepolis


  • This Place is Still Beautiful


  • Genesis Begins Again


  • Displacement


  • An Impossible Thing to Say


  • This Book is Anti-Racist


  • Take The Mic: Fictional Stories Of Everyday Resistance


  • Free Lunch


  • Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves


  • Frizzy


  • Nubia: Real One


  • Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians But Were Afraid to Ask


  • We Deserve Monuments


  • Displacement


  • Felix Ever After


  • Ain't Burned All the Bright


  • Omar Rising


  • Call Him Jack: The Story of Jackie Robinson, Black Freedom Fighter


  • Gone Wolf


  • Fight Back


  • Omar Rising


  • The Lost Dreamer


  • Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You


  • New Kid


  • Warrior Girl Unearthed


  • I'm a Wild Seed


  • Surviving The City, Vol. 1


  • Gone Wolf


  • The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School


  • The Racial Trauma Handbook for Teens: CBT Skills to Heal from the Personal and Intergenerational Trauma of Racism


  • The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School


  • Brown Girl Dreaming


  • Warrior Girl Unearthed


  • The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person


  • The Racial Trauma Handbook for Teens: CBT Skills to Heal from the Personal and Intergenerational Trauma of Racism


  • The 57 Bus


  • You Truly Assumed


  • You Truly Assumed


  • The Black Flamingo


  • Harvest House


  • New Kid


  • How to Be a (Young) Antiracist


  • How to Be a (Young) Antiracist


  • Persepolis


  • We Are the Scribes


  • Run: Book One


  • Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim


  • Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You


  • The Lost Dreamer


  • Surviving The City, Vol. 1


  • Genesis Begins Again


  • Brown Girl Dreaming


  • Bitter Root, Volume 1: Family Business


  • Harvest House


  • This Place is Still Beautiful


  • Pet


  • Fight Back


  • The 57 Bus


  • I'm a Wild Seed


  • An Impossible Thing to Say


  • Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People


  • We Are the Scribes


  • Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky


  • Free Lunch


  • Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People


  • Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim


  • Take The Mic: Fictional Stories Of Everyday Resistance


  • Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians But Were Afraid to Ask


  • Frizzy