Girl in translation / Jean Kwok.
When eleven-year-old Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to America, they speak little English and own nothing but debt. They arrive in New York hopeful for a better life, but find instead a squalid Brooklyn apartment lacking heat and real furniture, and a life of backbreaking labor in a Chinatown sweatshop. Unable to accept this as her future, Kim decides to use her "talent for school" to earn a place for herself and her mother in their adopted country. Disguising the most difficult truths of her life - her staggering poverty, the weight of her family's expectations, and the true depths of her culture confusion - she embarks on a double life: an exceptional student by day, and a sweatshop worker by evening and weekend. In time, Kim learns to translate not just her language but herself back and forth between the two world she straddles. Inside front cover.
Record details
- ISBN: 1594487561
- ISBN: 9781594485152
- ISBN: 9781594487569
- Physical Description: 293 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2010.
Content descriptions
- Target Audience Note:
- 840L Lexile
- Study Program Information Note:
- Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.7 13 143894.
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- Fiction.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Old Fort Branch Library | FIC KWO (Text) | 37810435431357 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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