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New from here / Kelly Yang.

Summary:

When the coronavirus hits Hong Kong, ten-year-old Knox Wei-Evans's mom makes the last-minute decision to move him and his siblings back to California, where they think they will be safe. Suddenly, Knox has two days to prepare for an international move-and for leaving his dad, who has to stay for work. At his new school in California, Knox struggles with being the new kid. His classmates think that because he's from Asia, he must have brought over the virus. At home, Mom just got fired and is panicking over the loss of health insurance, and Dad doesn't even know when he'll see them again, since the flights have been cancelled. And everyone struggles with Knox's blurting-things-out problem. As racism skyrockets during COVID-19, Knox tries to stand up to hate, while finding his place in his new country. Can you belong if you're feared; can you protect if you're new? And how do you keep a family together when you're oceans apart? Sometimes when the world is spinning out of control, the best way to get through it is to embrace our own lovable uniqueness.

Record details

ISBN: 9781534488304
ISBN: 1534488308
Physical Description: 361 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2022]
Copyright: ©2022

Content descriptions

Target Audience Note:	Ages 8-12. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. Grades 4-6. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. 630L Lexile Decoding demand: 94 (very high) Semantic demand: 100 (very high) Syntactic demand: 89 (very high) Structure demand: 89 (very high) Lexile
Study Program Information Note:	Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.1 11 515020.