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Kelly Yang

Start date: May 1, 2022

Finish date: May 31, 2022

Discussion: Newbery 2023

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Newbery 2023

* 2023 Mock Newbery Winner
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last updated Jan 30, 2023 06:00AM

* 2023 ALA Newbery Award
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Apr 18, 2022 Nefret rated it it was amazing

Felt weird to read a book about the beginning of the pandemic… too soon? Is this going to be considered historical fiction 20 years from now? Mostly I think Kelly Yang writes such amazing, empathetic characters that you root for despite their human flaws.

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Aug 30, 2022 Susan Dunn rated it really liked it

Shelves: j-fiction, audio-books

This was a good read, but also kind of disturbing, as it brought back a lot of trauma surrounding the first couple of months of the pandemic. The kids in the book didn't know how much worse it was going to get, but I did...

Knox and his mom and siblings leave their home in Hong Kong as the first few cases of the Corona virus begin to appear in China. The family has a home in CA as well, so they figure it's safer there. Their father has to stay behind because of work - but everyone thinks the relo ...more

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Sep 20, 2022 Dest rated it liked it

Shelves: middle-grade

I could not get into this. It felt very long, predictable, and slow to me. Maybe the pandemic experience is still too recent to make reading about it tolerable.

I think children interested in reading about the pandemic experiences of others may like it. But I think it's not half as good as Front Desk. ...more

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