Bitter Melon
Book - 2011 None on shelf No requests on this item
Sign in to request
AADL has no copies of this item
With the encouragement of one of her teachers, a Chinese American high school senior asserts herself against her demanding, old-school mother and carves out an identity for herself in late 1980s San Francisco.
REVIEWS & SUMMARIES
School Library Journal ReviewBooklist Review
Publishers Weekly Review
Summary / Annotation
Fiction Profile
Author Notes
COMMUNITY REVIEWS
Dealing With Life submitted by me11yagn on August 26, 2019, 6:43pm Frances deals with the ups and downs in her life, while struggling to please her family. I think that this book was well written and offered a view o9f the lives of high school students and their goals.
PUBLISHED
New York : Egmont USA, 2011.
Year Published: 2011
Description: 309 p. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
READING LEVEL
Lexile: 730
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781606841266
1606844121
SUBJECTS
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Child abuse -- Fiction.
High schools -- Fiction.
Chinese Americans -- Fiction.
San Francisco (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.