Title:
Front desk / Kelly Yang.
ISBN:
9781338157796
9781338157826
9781338541649
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Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic Inc., 2018.
©2018
Physical Description:
286 pages ; 22 cm.
Awards Note:
Winner of Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature (Children's literature, 2018-2019)
Winner of the Nene Award (2021)
Summary:
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.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader MG 4.5 9 196541
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Audience:
Decoding demand: 95 (very high) Semantic demand: 100 (very high) Syntactic demand: 91 (very high) Structure demand: 86 (very high) Lexile.
Audience:
640L Lexile
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OCLC Number:
on1002821384
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