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Review of Finally Heard

Finally Heard by Kelly YangIntermediate    Simon    352 pp.2/24    9781665947930    $18.99e-book ed.  9781665947954    $10.99In this cautionary tale, the sequel to Finally Seen (rev. 1/23), the perks and perils of social media play a pivotal—and educational—role. The Gaos still struggle with bills, and Lina’s mom joins Instagram to sell more bath bombs....
      
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Review of Finally Seen

Finally Seen by Kelly YangIntermediate    Simon    304 pp.2/23    9781534488335    $17.99e-book ed.  9781534488359    $10.99This contemporary immigrant tale follows a Beijing girl as she reunites with her parents and younger sister in California after five years of separation. Lina Gao, ten, thinks that her father is a successful microbiologist who owns a...
      
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Review of Private Label

Private Label by Kelly YangHigh School    Tegen/HarperCollins    416 pp.   g5/22    978-0-06-294110-7    $17.99e-book ed.  978-0-06-294112-1    $12.99In this culturally rich romance, Yang (Parachutes, rev. 5/20) revisits themes of gender, class, racism, and identity in another story with elements from her own life. Alternating first-person narrators Serene and Lian, both of Chinese...
      
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Review of New from Here

New from Here by Kelly YangIntermediate    Simon    368 pp.    g3/22    978-1-5344-8830-4    $17.99e-book ed.  978-1-5344-8832-8    $10.99Yang’s (Front Desk, rev. 7/18; Three Keys, rev. 11/20) pandemic-set tale, based partly on her own experiences, focuses on a biracial Chinese American expat family in January 2020. Impulsive middle-child Knox Wei-Evans, ten, is filled with...
      

Publishers' Preview: Spring 2022: Five Questions for Kelly Yang

This interview originally appeared in the March/April 2022 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Spring 2022, an advertising supplement that allows participating publishers a chance to each highlight a book from its current list. They choose the books; we ask the questions. Sponsored by When COVID-19 drove...
      

Review of Three Keys: A Front Desk-Novel

Three Keys: A Front Desk Novel by Kelly Yang Intermediate, Middle School    Scholastic    288 pp.    g  9/20    978-1-338-59138-5    $17.99  Library ed.  978-1-4328-8326-3    $20.99  e-book ed.  978-1-338-64816-4    $10.99  In this sequel to Front Desk (rev. 7/18), eleven-year-old Chinese American Mia Tang continues helping to run her now family-and-worker-owned motel in ­California. ­Business is going well, but...
      

Review of Parachutes

Parachutes by Kelly Yang High School    Tegen/HarperCollins    485 pp.    g 5/20    978-0-06-294108-4    $18.99 e-book ed.  978-0-06-294113-8    $10.99 Claire lives in Shanghai with her wealthy, image-obsessed, and unhappy family. When Claire’s parents send her to prep school in America, she boards with a fellow student (who’s on scholarship), Filipina American teen...
      

Publishers' Preview: Spring 2020: Five Questions for Kelly Yang

This interview originally appeared in the March/April 2020 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Spring 2020, an advertising supplement that allows participating publishers a chance to each highlight a book from its current list. They choose the books; we ask the questions. Sponsored by In Parachutes, Dani’s...
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