Lisa Yee
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Maizy Chen's Last Chance: (Newbery Honor Award Winner) -- Lisa Yee - Hardcover
Packed with surprises, heart, and stories within stories, this irresistible novel from an award-winning author celebrates food, fortune, and family. Welcome to the Golden Palace! Maizy has never been to Last Chance, Minnesota . . . until now. Her mom's plan is just to stay for a couple weeks, until her grandfather gets better. But plans change, and as Maizy spends more time in Last Chance (where she and her family are the only Asian Americans) and at the Golden Palace--the restaurant that's been in her family for generations--she makes some discoveries. For instance:
- You can tell a LOT about someone by the way they order food.
- And people can surprise you. Sometimes in good ways, sometimes in disappointing ways.
- And the Golden Palace has secrets. But the more Maizy discovers, the more questions she has. Like, why are her mom and her grandmother always fighting? Who are the people in the photographs on the office wall? And when she discovers that a beloved family treasure has gone missing--and someone has left a racist note--Maizy decides it's time to find the answers. "Heartfelt, personal, and real--this book is a gift." --TAE KELLER, Newbery Medal-winning author of When You Trap a Tiger
Author: Lisa Yee
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Published: 02/01/2022
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.80w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781984830258
Audience: Ages 9-12
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2021
Publishers Weekly 12/20/2021
Horn Book Magazine 01/01/2022 pg. 126
Booklist 02/15/2022 pg. 63
Shelf Awareness 02/15/2022
- You can tell a LOT about someone by the way they order food.
- And people can surprise you. Sometimes in good ways, sometimes in disappointing ways.
- And the Golden Palace has secrets. But the more Maizy discovers, the more questions she has. Like, why are her mom and her grandmother always fighting? Who are the people in the photographs on the office wall? And when she discovers that a beloved family treasure has gone missing--and someone has left a racist note--Maizy decides it's time to find the answers. "Heartfelt, personal, and real--this book is a gift." --TAE KELLER, Newbery Medal-winning author of When You Trap a Tiger
Author: Lisa Yee
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Published: 02/01/2022
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.80w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781984830258
Audience: Ages 9-12
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2021
Publishers Weekly 12/20/2021
Horn Book Magazine 01/01/2022 pg. 126
Booklist 02/15/2022 pg. 63
Shelf Awareness 02/15/2022
About the Author
Lisa Yee is the award-winning author of Millicent Min, Girl Genius, Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time, So Totally Emily Ebers, Absolutely Maybe, and many other books including the DC Super Hero Girls novel series and numerous American Girl books. Lisa is a third generation Chinese-America. She says, "I wrote Maizy Chen's Last Chance as a tribute to my grandparents and to all the immigrants who made the journey to America." Lisa divides her time between Western Massachusetts and Los Angeles.