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Tiger daughter, Rebecca Lim

Label
Tiger daughter, Rebecca Lim
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Tiger daughter
Oclc number
1224017553
Responsibility statement
Rebecca Lim
Summary
What I feel most days is that nothing is ever going to change. That my life won't even start, and that I'll be stuck like this forever. Wen Zhou is the daughter and only child of Chinese immigrants whose move to the lucky country has proven to be not so lucky. Wen and her friend, Henry Xiao - whose mum and dad are also struggling immigrants - both dream of escape from their unhappy circumstances, and form a plan to sit an entrance exam to a selective high school far from home. But when tragedy strikes, it will take all of Wen's resilience and resourcefulness to get herself and Henry through the storm that follows
Target audience
juvenile