"When ten-year-old Lina Gao steps off the plane in Los Angeles, it’s her first time in America and the first time seeing her parents and her little sister in five years! She’s been waiting for this moment every day while she lived with her grandmother in Beijing, getting teased by kids at school who called her “left behind girl.” Finally, her parents are ready for her to join their fabulous life in America! Except, it’s not exactly like in the postcards." -- publisher
Themes & Content
- Central Theme Categories
- Centering Culture & Identity
- Cross Group
- Content
- Activism/Social Justice Movements
- Diverse Families/Family Dynamics
- Inequalities
- Internet
- Languages & Communication
- Mind/Body
- Race-Related
- Relationship/Sexuality
- Relocation Narratives
- School/Extracurricular Activities
- Ethnicity
- Chinese
- Unspecified
- Immigration Representation
- Immigrants
- Gender Representation
- Boys/Men
- Girls/Women
- Race / Culture
- Asian/Pacific Islander/Asian American
- Latinx/Hispanic/Latin American
- White/European American/Caucasian
- Character Prominence
- Dominant Main
- Secondary
- Unique Contributions
- Cross Group interactions between BIPOC characters