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Girl in translation / Jean Kwok.

Kwok, Jean. (Author).

Summary:

Caught between the pressure to succeed in America, her duty to their family, and her own personal desires, Kimberly Chang, an immigrant girl from Hong Kong, learns to constantly translate not just her language but herself back and forth between the worlds she straddles.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781594485152
  • ISBN: 1594485151
  • Physical Description: 307 pages ; 20 cm
  • Edition: First Riverhead trade paperback edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2011.

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Target Audience Note:
840L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.7 13 143894.

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Subject: Chinese fiction > New York (State) > New York.
Women immigrants > Fiction.
Chinese American teenagers > Fiction.
Mothers and daughters > Fiction.
Chinese > New York (State) > New York > Fiction.
Immigrants > Fiction.
Chinese Americans > Fiction.
Teenagers > Fiction.
Genre: Bildungsromans.

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