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Ibi Zoboi

My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich

Ibi ZoboiFiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

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Essay Topics

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Unpack the title of the story. How is Ebony-Grace an “ice cream sandwich”? How does she turn the diss into a positive? Why does or doesn’t she embrace the term?

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Read one of Zoboi’s other books—whether it’s Star Child, American Street, or another title—and compare it to Ebony-Grace’s story. What do the characters and settings have in common? How do the themes match up?

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Read another story by another author that highlights girls of color—like Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming (2014)—and compare that book to Ebony-Grace’s story. In the “acknowledgments” to My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich, Zoboi shouts out Rita Williams-Garcia’s novel One Crazy Summer (2010), where a trio of sisters have to spend a summer with a distant parent and an unfamiliar place.

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