# Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match / Marisol McDonald No Combina - Hardcover

by **Monica Brown** (Author), **Sara Palacios** (Illustrator)

Pura Belpré Illustrator Award Honor, Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC)  
Junior Library Guild Selection

**Mismatched and fabulous Marisol McDonald celebrates her Peruvian and Scottish heritage.  
Bilingual English/Spanish.**

Marisol McDonald has flaming red hair and nut-brown skin. Polka dots and stripes are her favorite combination. She prefers peanut butter and jelly burritos in her lunch box. To Marisol, these seemingly mismatched things make perfect sense together.

Other people wrinkle their nose in confusion at Marisol-can't she just choose one or the other? Try as she might, in a world where everyone tries to put this biracial, Peruvian-Scottish-American girl into a box, Marisol McDonald doesn't match. And that's just fine with her.

A mestiza Peruvian American of European, Jewish, and Amerindian heritage, renowned author Monica Brown wrote this lively story to bring her own experience of being mismatched to life. Her buoyant prose is perfectly matched by Sara Palacios' mixed media illustrations.

### Author Biography

**Monica Brown** is the award-winning author of over thirty books for children, including _Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match/no combina_, _Sharuko_, _Maya's Blanket/la manta de Maya_, _Waiting for the Biblioburro_, _Frida and Her Animalitos_, and _El Cuarto Turquesa/The Turquoise Room_, as well as the Lola Levine chapter book series, among many others. She is the recipient of the Christopher Award, two Américas Awards, and multiple starred reviews. Her work has been translated into a dozen languages, and has appeared in the NYTimes, The Washington Post, and on NPR's All Things Considered. When not writing for children, Brown serves as a professor of English at Northern Arizona University, where she teaches about US Latino and multicultural literature. Brown lives with her family in Flagstaff, Arizona. Her website is monicabrown.net.

**Sara Palacios** was born in Mexico City. She holds degrees in Graphic Design, Illustration, and Digital Graphic Techniques, and is pursuing her MFA in Illustration at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She divides her time between Mexico City and San Francisco, California. Her web site is sarapalacios.com.

**Number of Pages:** 32

**Dimensions:** 0.5 x 9.9 x 8.8 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** April 01, 2013

**Award:** Pura Belpre Award (2012)

**Award:** Black-Eyed Susan Award (2014)

**Accelerated Reader:**

**Quiz Name:** Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match

**Interest Level:** Lower Grades, K-3

**Reading Level:** 2.8

**Point Value:** 0.5

## Details

- **Price:** 19.95 USD
- **Vendor:** Books by splitShops
- **Type:** Books
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