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Front Desk (Front Desk, Book 1)

Author: Yang, Kelly

Follett Number: 1206LUX
Audience: Upper Elementary
Publisher: Scholastic Inc., c2018, p2019
Format: 286 pages ; 20 cm
Dewey: -Fic-
Classifications: Fiction

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Subjects:
California, Southern Fiction
Chinese Americans Fiction
Friendship Fiction
Hotels, Motels, Etc. Fiction
Immigrants Fiction
Self-Confidence Fiction
Includes bibliographical references. 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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