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Author Kwok, Jean.

Title Girl in translation / Jean Kwok.

Imprint New York : Riverhead Books, 2010.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  F KWOK, J.    DUE 05-13-24
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Adult Fiction  FICTION KWOK    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Adult Fiction  F KWOK    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Adult Fiction  F KWOK    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  FIC KWOK    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  FICTION KWOK    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Main Level  FICTION KWOK    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  FIC KWOK    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  F KWOK    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  F KWOK    DUE 05-13-24

Description 293 pages ; 24 cm
Summary Caught between the pressure to succeed in America, her duty to their family, and her own personal desires, Kimberly Chang, an immigrant girl from Hong Kong, learns to constantly translate not just her language but herself back and forth between the worlds she straddles.
Awards Alex Awards, 2011.
Tayshas Reading Commended, 2012.
Subject Chinese -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Women immigrants -- Fiction.
Chinese American teenagers -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Poverty -- Fiction.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Coming of age -- Fiction.
Chinese. (OCoLC)fst00857169
Chinese American teenagers. (OCoLC)fst00857241
Mothers and daughters. (OCoLC)fst01026997
Women immigrants. (OCoLC)fst01177764
New York (State) -- New York. (OCoLC)fst01204333
Genre/Form Domestic fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726589
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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1594487561 (hardcover)
1594485151 (pbk.)
9781594485152 (pbk.)
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