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Editorial Reviews
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Grade 8 Up–Mina has a lot to cope with during the summer before her senior year in high school in this novel by An Na (Putnam, 2006). Her Korean-American family needs her help in their small dry cleaning business, her hearing-impaired younger sister depends on her for the nurturing their mother doesn't offer, and she's getting unwanted physical attention from a longtime family friend. But most of all, Mina has promulgated some whopping lies about her academic prowess that has put her in several tight spots. She's led her mother to believe that she's head of the Honor Society and en route to Harvard when, in fact, Jonathan, a family friend, has covered for her and taught her about stealing from the family's business. Complicating matters is Mina's new love interest, Ysrael, a young man from Mexico who comes to work at the family's dry cleaners, who urges her to follow her dreams—and him. Kim Mai Guest provides compelling narration. This story is compact, highly textured, and sure to engage listeners.–Francisca Goldsmith, Berkley Public Library, CA
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An Na's poetic style is brought to life by the versatile Kim Mai Guest in this story of a Korean-American family in crisis. Guest's facility with accents lets the listener hear the heavy accents of the parents in contrast to the very American speech of the children. The story is told in the first-person voice of Mina, with alternating chapters in the voice of her deaf sister, Suna. Mina's web of lies, woven to maintain her mother's idealized image of the perfect daughter/student, is beginning to unravel. As senior year approaches, Mina must find a way to weave truth from the threads of her life. N.E.M. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Grade 8 Up–Mina has a lot to cope with during the summer before her senior year in high school in this novel by An Na (Putnam, 2006). Her Korean-American family needs her help in their small dry cleaning business, her hearing-impaired younger sister depends on her for the nurturing their mother doesn't offer, and she's getting unwanted physical attention from a longtime family friend. But most of all, Mina has promulgated some whopping lies about her academic prowess that has put her in several tight spots. She's led her mother to believe that she's head of the Honor Society and en route to Harvard when, in fact, Jonathan, a family friend, has covered for her and taught her about stealing from the family's business. Complicating matters is Mina's new love interest, Ysrael, a young man from Mexico who comes to work at the family's dry cleaners, who urges her to follow her dreams—and him. Kim Mai Guest provides compelling narration. This story is compact, highly textured, and sure to engage listeners.–Francisca Goldsmith, Berkley Public Library, CA
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From AudioFile
An Na's poetic style is brought to life by the versatile Kim Mai Guest in this story of a Korean-American family in crisis. Guest's facility with accents lets the listener hear the heavy accents of the parents in contrast to the very American speech of the children. The story is told in the first-person voice of Mina, with alternating chapters in the voice of her deaf sister, Suna. Mina's web of lies, woven to maintain her mother's idealized image of the perfect daughter/student, is beginning to unravel. As senior year approaches, Mina must find a way to weave truth from the threads of her life. N.E.M. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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