TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yang,Kelly
TI  - Front desk
AV  - PZ7.1.Y365 Fr 2018
U1  - [Fic] 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - New York
PB  - Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic Inc.
KW  - Immigrant families
KW  - California, Southern
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Chinese
KW  - Motels
KW  - Exploitation
KW  - Self-confidence
KW  - Friendship
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Chinese Americans
KW  - Hotels, motels, etc
KW  - fast
KW  - JUVENILE FICTION / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Juvenile works
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; 3-7; Lexile; 640L
N2  - Recent immigrants from China and desperate for work and money, ten-year-old Mia Tang's parents take a job managing a rundown motel in Southern California, even though the owner, Mr. Yao is a nasty skinflint who exploits them; while her mother (who was an engineer in China) does the cleaning, Mia works the front desk and tries to cope with demanding customers and other recent immigrants--not to mention being only one of two Chinese in her fifth grade class, the other being Mr. Yao's son, Jason
ER  -