Tiger daughter / Rebecca Lim.
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TextPublisher: Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 206 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781760877644; 1760877646Subject(s): Immigrant families -- Australia -- Juvenile fction | Children of immigrants -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction | Chinese -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction | Friendship -- Juvenile fictionGenre/Form: Australian fiction. | Children's stories. | Young adult fiction. DDC classification: A823.4 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.
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Ages: 11+.
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.
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