The Year of the Baby

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Call Number: J Fiction / Cheng, Andrea, Kids Book / Fiction / General / Cheng, Andrea
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Traverwood Branch

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Downtown Kids Books 4-week checkout	J Fiction / Cheng, Andrea	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Traverwood Kids Books 4-week checkout	Kids Book / Fiction / General / Cheng, Andrea	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Malletts Kids Books 4-week checkout	Kids Book / Fiction / General / Cheng, Andrea	4-week checkout	Due 04-27-2024
Westgate Kids Books 4-week checkout	Kids Book / Fiction / General / Cheng, Andrea	4-week checkout	Due 05-11-2024

Sequel to: Year of the book.
"A Junior Library Guild selection"--Jkt. flap.
Fifth-grader Anna is concerned that her baby sister Kaylee, adopted from China three months ago, is not thriving so she and her best friends, Laura and Camille, create a science project that may save the day.

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Wonderful! submitted by LibraryMaven on June 16, 2014, 7:09pm Fourth grade Anna’s life is busy: she is happy with school and her upcoming science project, and she loves her newly adopted baby sister Kaylee. But, everyone in her family is concerned when Kaylee stops gaining weight and doesn’t want to eat. Anna teams up with her friends to create a science project to help Kaylee eat and thrive. This short chapter book is a surprisingly nuanced: Anna’s mother is from China, and Kaylee herself is very aware of the perceptions that go with being, as she calls herself, ABC- American Born Chinese. Particularly effective is the way that Chang highlights the assumptions that even friends can make based on race and ethnicity. She also does an excellent job presenting the issue of Kaylee’s adoption from China, with both the happiness of Anna and her family in having a baby sister and their remaining questions about her birth family, and Kaylee’s physical transition to the United States. Elementary school friendships and the suggestion of cliques is touched on briefly. However, Chang’s approach to these issues is not heavy-handed and a wide variety of readers would enjoy this book, particularly if they, like Anna, would be thrilled to find themselves in the main characters. Highly recommended.