"The little girl I was would have been thrilled to encounter Meilan... having found a character who embraces the complexity of being both Chinese and American, I would have been able to echo her words I am not alone." New York Times Book Review by Jean Kwok A family feud before the start of seventh grade propels Meilan from Bostons Chinatown to rural Ohio, where she must tap into her inner strength and sense of justice to make a new place for herself in this resonant debut.Meilan Huas world is made up of a few key ingredients her familys beloved matriarch, Nai Nai the bakery her parents, aunts, and uncles own and run in Bostons Chinatown and her favorite Chinese fairy tales. After Nai Nai passes, the family has a fallingout that sends Meilan, her parents, and her grieving grandfather on the road in search of a new home. They take a winding path across the country before landing in Redbud, Ohio. Everything in Redbud is the opposite of Chinatown, and Meilans not quite sure who she isbeing renamed at school only makes it worse. She decides she is many Meilans, each inspired by a different Chinese character with the same pronunciation as her name. Sometimes she is Mist, cooling and invisible other times, shes Basket, carrying her parents hopes and dreams and her guilt of not living up to them and occasionally she is bright Blue, the way she feels around her new friend Logan. Meilan keeps her facets separate until an injustice at school shows her the power of bringing her many...

Binding: Paperback;368 pages; Publisher: Penguin Young Readers; Classification: YF; Weight: 412 g; Dimensions: 129 x 195 x 28

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