Call Number: J Lin
Best for grades 3-6
Grace Lin is one of my new favorite authors (Where the Mountain meets the Moon, Ling and Ting, etc…) and so I was super excited when I heard that Dumping Days was coming out. Remember Pacy/Grace? The middle child from The Year of the Dog and The Year of the Rat? Well, she’s back and on an all new adventure with her family as they travel to Taiwan for the first time. She tries new foods (especially lots of different kinds of dumplings), meets new people, and takes a class. She gets lost, doesn’t understand the languages, and even runs into some trouble with a fancy toilet during her 28 days in Taiwan.
What I like best about the Pacy/Grace books is how real they are—Grace Lin bases many of these stories on those from her life, and because of that they are so easy to relate to. Anyone who enjoys the auto-biographical elements Laura Ingles Wilder, or the timelessness of Ramona Quimby, or even the struggles of being a middle child (Diary of a Wimpy Kid) will enjoy Dumpling Days.
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-JW-
