Making Friends with Billy Wong
New York : Scholastic Press, 2016.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 209 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
In 1952 eleven-year-old Azalea is sent to Paris Junction, Arkansas, to help out her grandmother who has injured her foot, but does not really seem to want her help; Billy Wong is a Chinese-American boy whose uncle owns the local grocery store, in town to attend the "white" school, since the Chinese mission school has closed, but frustrated by the overt prejudice of the local children--and over the summer the two begin to forge a friendship.
Subjects:
Chinese Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
Prejudices -- Juvenile fiction.
Friendship -- Juvenile fiction.
Grandmothers -- Juvenile fiction.
Arkansas -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
Arkansas -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
Chinese Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
Prejudices -- Juvenile fiction.
Friendship -- Juvenile fiction.
Grandmothers -- Juvenile fiction.
Arkansas -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
Arkansas -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
Target Audience: 640L
ISBN:
9780545924252 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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C Scattergood | St. Andrews Indoors | Children's Fiction | In |