- Published: New York : First Second, 2006.
- Year Published: 2006
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Description: 233 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
- Language: English
- Format: Graphic Novel
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- Lexile: 530
ISBN/Standard Number
- 1596431520 (softcover)
- 9781596431522
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read_jr printz award winner asian american abc myth chinese american abc racism chinese Printz Award Winner 2007 coming of age asian american myth national book award for young people's literature finalist discipline graphic novel comic reader's advisory teen reader's advisory
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Call number: Graphic Novel , Teen Graphic Novel, R Printz Award 2007
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Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture. Presented in comic book format.
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Right on
This is a great book. Really. We need more books written about the struggles of children who grow up as a part of their schools' minorities, and how they are forced to balance their two cultures (the culture their ethnic background has decided for them and the American culture that they are being raised in) simultaneously as they are coming of age. I also really love the courage, strength, and determination Yang instills into young readers with the mythological stories told throughout novel. The layers of stories throughout the book can also be taken abstractly as metaphors for how Asian-Americans are forced to layer on multiple identities in today's world.
Awesome
This book was a bit confusing, but still very good. It is three stories then combined into one story a the end. If you think about it a bit you will understand the story. I totally recommend it! :)
Amazing Book
It's three stories in one book, with them all converging at the end.
It really does make you think about stuff.
It really does make you think about stuff.
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