Measuring up / Lily LaMotte ; Ann Xu ; colors by Sunmi.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York, NY : Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Edition: First editionDescription: 205 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780062973863
- 006297386X
- 741.5/973 23
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Graphic Novel | Bedford Public Library Juvenile Graphic Novels | Fiction | J GN LAM | Available | 32500002249028 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
An ALA Top 10 Graphic Novel of 2021 · A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection · Fall 2020 Kids Indie Next List · Featured in Today Show's AAPI Heritage Month list · Amazon Best Books November Selection · Cybils Awards Finalist · An NBC AAPI Selection · Featured in Parents Magazine Book Nook October issue · A CBC Hot off the Press October Selection · WA State Book Awards Finalist · Texas Library Association Little Maverick Selection
For fans of American Born Chinese and Roller Girl, Measuring Up is a don't-miss graphic novel debut from Lily LaMotte and Ann Xu!
"A beautiful story about food, family, and finding your place in the world." --Gene Luen Yang, author of American Born Chinese and Dragon Hoops
"A delicious and heartwarming exploration of identity by a young immigrant trying to find her place in multiple cultures." --Remy Lai, author of Pie in the Sky and Fly on the Wall
Twelve-year-old Cici has just moved from Taiwan to Seattle, and the only thing she wants more than to fit in at her new school is to celebrate her grandmother, A-má's, seventieth birthday together.
Since she can't go to A-má, Cici cooks up a plan to bring A-má to her by winning the grand prize in a kids' cooking contest to pay for A-má's plane ticket! There's just one problem: Cici only knows how to cook Taiwanese food.
And after her pickled cucumber debacle at lunch, she's determined to channel her inner Julia Child. Can Cici find a winning recipe to reunite with A-má, a way to fit in with her new friends, and somehow find herself too
"Having just moved to Seattle from Taiwan, twelve-year-old Cici enters a cooking competition to win the chance to see her grandmother again, but she only knows how to cook Taiwanese food."-- Provided by publisher.