Girl in Translation, Jean Kwok - 9781594487569

Introducing a fresh, exciting Chinese-American voice, an inspiring debut about an immigrant girl forced to choose between two worlds and two futures.

When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more difficult truths of her life-like the staggering degree of her poverty, the weight of her family's future resting on her shoulders, or her secret love for a factory boy who shares none of her talent or ambition-Kimberly learns to constantly translate not just her language but herself back and forth between the worlds she straddles.

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[MultiMoo101]

please make this into a movie!

[wendychenchen]

can't wait to read more about KIMBERLY CHANG ;)

[MizzusUchiha]

I just got done reading this book. I CRIED BECAUSE MATT AND KIM COULDN'T BE TOGETHER!!! </3 This should really be a movie! Well now I have to write a 5 to 10 pages paper about it :D

[XVixenfurX117]

This book made me be grateful for how I live... for heat and food every day and no roaches..

And, I hate romance, but the ending of this book left me in tears. Just saying.

[snowspirithaven15]

this book was so amazing! i wished that it didn't have such a bittersweet ending... :'(

[MissMassacre911]

I couldn't put this book down, it was so good!

[70Samatha]

Yes this book should be turn to a movie!!!!

AGREEED!!!! :D

[adiday1]

this book is amazing! OMG

[xxMinaynayxx]

I fell in love with this book after the first few pages. Every time I read it, it feels like I'm in my own little world of Kimberly Chang :)

It should be books like this that are made into movie, not some other craps like twilight and such...

[nmvd2001]

excellent book =)

[icyheart07]

amazing book!



[alchemyfreak3]

so goood!