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Front desk [book group discussion kit]

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2018

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Author:	Yang, Kelly.
Title:	Front desk [book group discussion kit] Kelly Yang.
Call Number:	KIT JFIC Yang Kelly
Edition:	Book group discussion kit.
Publisher, Date:	New York : Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic Inc., [2018] ©2018
Description:	5 copies in bag + folder of questions
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.
Series:	Front desk novel ; [1] Yang, Kelly. Front desk novel.
Subjects:	Motels -- California, Southern -- Children's fiction. Exploitation -- Children's fiction. Immigrants -- Children's fiction. Chinese Americans -- Children's fiction. Self-confidence -- Children's fiction. California, Southern -- Children's fiction. Virginia Readers' Choice Winner, Elementary. Asian/Pacific American Award winners Book group discussion kits, Children's.
Notes:	Kit intended for use by book groups. Books are accompanied by questions for book group discussion. Virginia Readers' Choice winning book 2019/20 (Elementary) Includes Author's note with bibliographical references. Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature, 2018-2019.
ISBN:	9781338157796 1338157795 9781338157796 9781338157796
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