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Front desk / Kelly Yang.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Scholastic Inc., [2019]; �2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 286 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9781338157826
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • [Fic] 23
LOC classification:
  • PZ7.1.Y365 Fr 2019
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.
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Includes bibliographical references.

School Library Journal starred, March 2018

Booklist starred, April 2018

Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books starre, May 2018

Kirkus Starred, March 2018

Horn Book, November 2018

Teacher Librarian, October 2018

Library Media Connection, August 2018

Publishers Weekly Annex, June 2018

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.

4.5.

3-6 Follett School Solutions.

Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.5 9.0 196541. BR