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Front desk Kelly Yang.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic Inc. 2018.Edition: 1st edDescription: 286 p. 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781338157796
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version: Front deskDDC classification:
  • [Fic] 23
LOC classification:
  • PZ7.1.Y365 Fr 2018
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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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Notes Date due Barcode Item holds
Books Books Riverfield Country Day School Fiction Collection Fiction Collection FIC Yan (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available Shelved in FIC Yan RCDS805
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Includes bibliographical references.

Library Media Connection, August 2018

Publishers Weekly Annex, June 2018

Horn Book, July 2018

Kirkus Starred, March 2018

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

Booklist starred, April 2018

School Library Journal starred, March 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.

640 Lexile

3-6 Follett School Solutions.

5.3.

Accelerated Reader 4.5 MG 9 196541

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