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    Audiobook6 hours

    Front Desk

    Written by Kelly Yang

    Narrated by Sunny Lu

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    About this audiobook

    Mia Tang has a lot of secrets.

    Number 1: She lives in a motel, not a big house. Every day, while her immigrant parents clean the rooms, ten-year-old Mia manages the front desk of the Calivista Motel and tends to its guests.

    Number 2: Her parents hide immigrants. And if the mean motel owner, Mr. Yao, finds out they've been letting them stay in the empty rooms for free, the Tangs will be doomed.

    Number 3: She wants to be a writer. But how can she when her mom thinks she should stick to math because English is not her first language?

    It will take all of Mia's courage, kindness, and hard work to get through this year. Will she be able to hold on to her job, help the immigrants and guests, escape Mr. Yao, and go for her dreams?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateNov 6, 2018
    ISBN9781984846082
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    Front Desk
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    Kelly Yang

    Kelly Yang is the New York Times bestselling author of Front Desk, Three Keys, and Room to Dream and is the winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Children’s Literature. She went to college at age thirteen and is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and Harvard Law School. She is the founder of the Kelly Yang Project, a leading writing and debating program for children in Asia. She lived in Hong Kong for fifteen years, where she taught many parachutes and was a columnist for the South China Morning Post. Her writing has also been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Atlantic. Kelly currently lives in Los Angeles with her family. Please find her online at www.kellyyang.com. Parachutes is her YA debut.

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    • 4/5
      If you have children read this book with them. Important lessons of hope, hard work, tolerance and race.
    • 5/5
      I really loved this book! All the events in this book were heartbreaking, while still being realistic. I loved the character of Mia Tang and Hank, one of the weeklys in the motel.