Twelve-year-old Casey is waiting for the day that Barney, her father, hits it big 'cause when that horse comes in, he tells her, it's the penthouse suite. But then hr ends up in the hospital, and Casey is sent to Chinatown to live with her grandmother, Paw-Paw. Now the waiting seems longer than ever.
Casey feels lost in Chinatown. She's not prepared for the Chinese school, the noisy crowds, missing her father. But Paw-Paw tells her about the mother Casey never knew, and about her family's owl charm and her true Chinese name. And Casey at last begins to understand that this Paw-Paw's Chinatown home, her parents' home is her home,too.
Maxine Hong Kingston
Hey! That Happened to me. I did that. I saw that,' the young reader will say, and be glad that a writer set it down, and feel comforted, less eccentric, less alone. Along with the sadness, Child Of The Owl makes us laugh with familiarity. Washington Post Book World
Categories:
- Teen & Young Adult
- Literature & Fiction
- Social & Family Issues
- Family
- Multigenerational
- Family
- Social & Family Issues
- Literature & Fiction
Publisher : HarperCollins
Author : Yep, Laurence
Language : English
Edition : Reprint
Published :2001-05-08
Number Of Pages : 288
Binding : Paperback
ISBN-10 : 006440336X
ISBN-13 : 9780064403368
Item weight : 0.4 lb
Dimensions : 0.7 in x 5.1 in x 7.5 in
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