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PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic Inc., 2018
©2018
©2018
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
286 pages, 12 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781338157796, 1338157795, 9781338157826, 1338157825
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Winner of the 2021 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award
Recent immigrants from China and desperate for work and money, ten-year-old Mia Tang's parents take a job managing a rundown motel in Southern California, even though the owner, Mr. Yao is a nasty skinflint who exploits them; while her mother (who was an engineer in China) does the cleaning, Mia works the front desk and tries to cope with demanding customers and other recent immigrants--not to mention being only one of two Chinese in her fifth grade class, the other being Mr. Yao's son, Jason
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