The Jade Dragon Marsden, Carolyn/ Loh, Virginia Shin-mui

PEOPLE & PLACES / UNITED STATES / ASIAN AMERICAN

A Chinese-American girl longs for friendship with a classmate adopted from China in this subtle, insightful middle-grade novel.
Ginny is sure the new girl in her second-grade class will be her best friend. After all, Stephanie is Chinese, just like Ginny. But Ginny soon discovers some puzzling things about Stephanie: she doesn't like Chinese food, she hates her straight black hair, and even more surprisingly, her parents are not Chinese. At Ginny's house, MaMa cooks delicious Chinese dishes as the family prepares for their big holiday party and Stephanie spies Ginny's most prized possession -- a hand-carved jade dragon -- and asks to take it home. Much as Ginny yearns for a best friend, is it worth the risk of losing her special keepsake and angering MaMa? Drawing on Virginia Loh's real life story, the authors poignantly capture Ginny's dilemma as she navigates with difficulty between her culture and her friendship.

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Ginny, a Chinese-American girl torn between her family's traditional values and the more modern ones in her second grade classroom, learns that friendship cannot be bought when a new girl named Stephanie arrives.Ginny, a Chinese-American girl torn between her family's traditional values and the more modern ones in her second grade classroom, learns that friendship cannot be bought when a new girl named Stephanie arrives.

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