Girl in translation
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ISBN:
9781594485152
9781101187487
9780307736192
9781594487569
9781101187487
9780307736192
9781594487569
Accelerated Reader:
UG
Level 5.7, 13 Points
Level 5.7, 13 Points
Lexile measure:
840L
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Grouping Title | girl in translation |
Grouping Author | jean kwok |
Grouping Category | book |
Grouping Language | English (eng) |
Last Grouping Update | 2025-08-25 05:07:20AM |
Last Indexed | 2025-08-25 05:12:56AM |
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Southeast Regional
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Holly Springs Community - Adult Fiction
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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. Through Kimberly's story, author Jean Kwok, who also emigrated from Hong Kong as a young girl, brings to the page the lives of countless immigrants who are caught between the pressure to succeed in America, their duty to their family, and their own personal desires, exposing a world that we rarely hear about. Written in an indelible voice that dramatizes the tensions of an immigrant girl growing up between two cultures, surrounded by a language and world only half understood, Girl in Translation is an unforgettable and classic American immigrant novel - a moving tale of hardship and triumph, heartbreak and love, and all that gets lost in translation.
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KWOK
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Wake County Public Libraries
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Cary Regional
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East Regional
Eva H. Perry Regional
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Southeast Regional
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9781594485152
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2010
2011
2011
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Books on Tape
Penguin Publishing Group
Riverhead Books
Penguin Publishing Group
Riverhead Books
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Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
Chinese -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
Fiction
Immigrants -- Fiction
Chinese -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
Fiction
Immigrants -- Fiction
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Girl in translation
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Girl in Translation
Girl in translation / Jean Kwok
Girl in translation / Jean Kwok
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Girl in translation
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Chinese
Fiction
Historical Fiction
Immigrants
Literature
Fiction
Historical Fiction
Immigrants
Literature
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