The Jade Dragon
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (971 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0763630128 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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E. R. Bird said Subtle splendor. I've been reading a lot of children's books this year that have the feel of A Stranger Comes To Town. Or, in the world of kid literature, A New Kid Comes To School. There have been stories where the new child is overweight, where the new kid has been horribly burned, and where the new kid is sexually abused. Imagine my relief, then, when I pick up something like, "The Jade Dragon". In this book, the new kid is just a small girl of C. Great Cultural Pick Christina Fixemer A new girl has arrived in Ginny's class. Stephanie looks just like her: Chinese. Ginny is excited that she won't be the only Chinese girl anymore, and she hopes that Stephanie will be her best friend.Friendship with Stephanie doesn't turn out the way Ginny expects. Stephanie has white parents, and she won't touch Chinese food or clothes. So when Stephanie wants to borrow a hand-carved jade dragon, Ginny doesn't want to say "no." Bes. Two Chinese Daughters Linda Kissling This is a story of two Chinese girls -- Stephanie, born in China and adopted by a white American couple, and Ginny, born in the US of Chinese parents who adhere to customs of their homeland. Each is struggling to find her place in a society where she might fit in, where each is so different from classmates and neighbors. American-born Ginny is deeply immersed in the Chinese traditions of her family. She is thrilled to see another gi
A Chinese-American girl longs for friendship with a classmate adopted from China in this subtle, insightful middle-grade novel.Ginny is sure the new girl in her second-grade class will be her best friend. But Ginny soon discovers some puzzling things about Stephanie: she doesn't like Chinese food, she hates her straight black hair, and even more surprisingly, her parents are not Chinese. At Ginny's house, MaMá cooks delicious Chinese dishes as the family prepares for their big holiday party and Stephanie spies Ginny's most prized possession — a hand-carved jade dragon — and asks to take it home. After all, Stephanie is Chinese, just like Ginny. Much as Ginny yearns for a best friend, is it worth the risk of losing her special keepsake and angering MaMá? Drawing on Virginia Loh's real life story, the authors poignantly capture Ginny's dilemma as she navigates with difficulty between her culture and her friendship.
Then a new girl, Stephanie, enters her class, and Ginny immediately hopes they will be friends because Stephanie is Chinese, too. It is 1983, and Ginny Liao is the only Chinese second grader in her suburban Virginia school. In order to help the friendship along, Ginny loans Stephanie the jade dragon her parents had made to commemorate her birth in the Year of the Dragon. From School Library Journal Grade 3-4–A well-executed easy chapter book that incorporates a friendship story with the more serious issue of identity. That doesn't prove to be the case. Ginny is a real little girl who doesn't want to be different, but at the same time values her parents and their culture. She has friends among her classmates, but no best friend. Almost at once she knows she has ma
Carolyn Marsden is the author of THE GOLD-THREADED DRESS and its sequel, THE QUAIL CLUB, as well as SILK UMBRELLAS and MOON RUNNER. Like Ginny, the story's heroine, she was born and raised in Virginia. THE JADE DRAGON is her debut novel. She lives in San Diego, California. . Virginia Shin-Mui Loh is a former elementary-school teacher who is currently a doctoral candidate in education. She lives in La Jolla, California