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list price: $12.95
edition:Paperback
category: Young Adult Fiction
published: Sep 2006
ISBN:9781896580883
publisher: Tradewind Books

What Happened this Summer

by Paul Yee

tagged: short stories, friendship, assimilation
Description

This new collection of short stories by Governor General's Award winning author Paul Yee confronts the secret lives of Chinese-Canadian teenagers as they battle with their parents over schooling, carreers, sexuality, religion and integration into North American culture. Once again Paul Yee offers a rare glimpse into the conflicted world of Chinese youth, some of whom are locally born, while others have recently immigrated from Hong Kong, Taiwan and China.

About the Author

Paul Yee is one of Canada's finest writers for children. He was raised in Vancouver and has worked in the archives at the Vancouver Museum. He won the Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Literature for Ghost Train. He now lives in Toronto.

Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
Age:
12 to 18
Grade:
8 to 12
Reading age:
12 to 18
Editorial Reviews

“This collection of nine short stories addresses the experience of today's immigrant Chinese youth coming of age in Canada.”

— Booklist

“These stories offer a varied, thought-provoking picture of a community Yee has long profiled.”

— Toronto Star

"Every teen of Chinese ancestry will identify with the characters and situations here. These stories will definitely serve the Asian-American (or Canadian) students in our high schools, and other students may come away with a better understanding of Asian-American students after reading this. Highly Recommended."

— Library Media Connection

“Yee's teens are not only credible; they will stick with readers just as Salinger's Glass family has.”

— Kliatt

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