Front Desk
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Mia Tang has a lot of secrets.
Number 1: She lives in a motel, not a big house. Every day, while her immigrant parents clean the rooms, ten-year-old Mia manages the front desk of the Calivista Motel and tends to its guests.
Number 2: Her parents hide immigrants. And if the mean motel owner, Mr. Yao, finds out they've been letting them stay in the empty rooms for free, the Tangs will be doomed.
Number 3: She wants to be a writer. But how can she when her mom thinks she should stick to math because English is not her first language?
It will take all of Mia's courage, kindness, and hard work to get through this year. Will she be able to hold on to her job, help the immigrants and guests, escape Mr. Yao, and go for her dreams?
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5 primary booksFront Desk
Front Desk is a 5-book series with 5 released primary works first released in 2018 with contributions by Kelly Yang.
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Cute and charming while dealing with serious issues. Bonus points for being semi-autobiographical.
Note: I picked this up because some parent somewhere (in ‘Murica natch) was terribly aggrieved that thier precious child had been exposed to all the sordid evil this book contains by an educator and that sort of thing always piques my curiosity.
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