Marisol McDonald and the Clash Bash

Marisol McDonald is Peruvian-Scottish-American and rejoices in not matching. She has red hair and brown skin, loves wearing polka dots and stripes, and eats peanut butter and jelly burritos. In this sequel to Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match/Marisol McDonald no combina, author Monica Brown, herself a mestiza Peruvian American of European, Jewish, and Amerindian heritage, shows Marisol getting ready for her eighth birthday party. She can’t decide, though, whether she wants it to have a soccer, pirate, princess, or unicorn theme—she loves them all. The one thing she knows she wants, though, is a visit with her abuelita (grandmother). In the end, she finds a way to combine all of her interests and be her “soccer-player-pirate-princess-unicorn self”—and her friends follow her lead in combining their costumes and accessories, too. A delightful story of celebrating multiple identities.