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Grade 4-6-Second Sister Yinglan has clung to her Chinese heritage after the musically talented Yang family's move from China to Seattle. Yang the Youngest, Yingtao, relates what happens when he and Third Sister decide that their sibling needs help making friends in America. He gets an inspiration after watching a movie version of Much Ado About Nothing, in which Beatrice and Benedick fall in love after each overhears gossip that one likes the other. Yingtao, Third Sister, and her friend Kim decide to play matchmaker between Yinglan and Paul Eng, a baseball player of Chinese ancestry. Yingtao has ulterior motives?he hopes Paul will give him pointers on improving his own game. The plot thickens when Kim's older brother Jason overhears part of the plans and thinks Yinglan is enamored of him. The climax occurs at a picnic where all three families come together. Namioka offers comparisons between life here and in China and insights into the meaning of heritage and ethnicity. However, the humor that shone forth in earlier titles about the Yang family seems contrived and flat here, and the plot becomes increasingly silly. The story takes time to get into and ultimately disappoints.
Diane S. Marton, Arlington County Library, VA
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Heather Vogel Frederick, The New York Times Book Review, September 20, 1998
In her third installment about the Yang family, recent immigrants to Seattle from Shanghai, Lensey Namioka consolidated her place in the ranks of those writers who, like Laurence Yep and Amy Tan, are charting the Chinese American experience with humor and warmth. In the same lighthearted vein as "Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear" and "Yang the Third and Her Impossible Family," Namioka here turns the spotlight on "Second Sister" Yinglan, who at 15 is reluctant to embrace American ways and clings tenaciously to her Chinese heritage. "Third Sister and I have both made friends," the narrator, Yingtao, the youngest Yang boy, notes. "Eldest Brother is a loner, but music is all he cares about, anyway. Second Sister who misses China most, especially the friends she had to leave behind.
Grade 4-6-Second Sister Yinglan has clung to her Chinese heritage after the musically talented Yang family's move from China to Seattle. Yang the Youngest, Yingtao, relates what happens when he and Third Sister decide that their sibling needs help making friends in America. He gets an inspiration after watching a movie version of Much Ado About Nothing, in which Beatrice and Benedick fall in love after each overhears gossip that one likes the other. Yingtao, Third Sister, and her friend Kim decide to play matchmaker between Yinglan and Paul Eng, a baseball player of Chinese ancestry. Yingtao has ulterior motives?he hopes Paul will give him pointers on improving his own game. The plot thickens when Kim's older brother Jason overhears part of the plans and thinks Yinglan is enamored of him. The climax occurs at a picnic where all three families come together. Namioka offers comparisons between life here and in China and insights into the meaning of heritage and ethnicity. However, the humor that shone forth in earlier titles about the Yang family seems contrived and flat here, and the plot becomes increasingly silly. The story takes time to get into and ultimately disappoints.
Diane S. Marton, Arlington County Library, VA
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Heather Vogel Frederick, The New York Times Book Review, September 20, 1998
In her third installment about the Yang family, recent immigrants to Seattle from Shanghai, Lensey Namioka consolidated her place in the ranks of those writers who, like Laurence Yep and Amy Tan, are charting the Chinese American experience with humor and warmth. In the same lighthearted vein as "Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear" and "Yang the Third and Her Impossible Family," Namioka here turns the spotlight on "Second Sister" Yinglan, who at 15 is reluctant to embrace American ways and clings tenaciously to her Chinese heritage. "Third Sister and I have both made friends," the narrator, Yingtao, the youngest Yang boy, notes. "Eldest Brother is a loner, but music is all he cares about, anyway. Second Sister who misses China most, especially the friends she had to leave behind.
Scornful of those Chinese-Americans she meets who seem oblivious of their roots (echoing an insult she overhears in an Asian market, Yinglan calls them bannas - "yellow on the outside, but white inside"), she spends all her pocket money on Chinese paperbacks, refuses to relinquish her traditional high-collared cloth jacket (despite the fact that she's outgrown it) and, in a delicious but of irony, agrees to eat McDonald's only because the same restaurant can be found in China. Hoping to help their sister make friends - and inspired by the plot of Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" - Yingtao and Third Sister Yingmei conspire in a bit of matchmaking, which backfires when the wrong boy overhears their invented compliments and thinks that Yinglan has a crush on him. The story comes neatly full circle when Yinglan and her new friends turn the tables on the conspirators. Into her breezy prose and snappy dialogue Namioka manages to insert thoughtful issues of acculturation and ethnic heritage ("Why do we have to give everybody a label, anyway?" Yingtao asks at one point), and her deft use of humor serves as a wedge to open the door on cross-cultural differences. Affectionately evoked, Namioka's blithe tale is enhanced by the grace notes of Kees de Kiefte's black-and-white drawings.
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