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Kaban ng Hiyas
Congressional Library

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Kaban ng Hiyas
Congressional Library

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Children

Child of the Owl

Author

Laurence Yep

Call Number

KH417919.LT 4030 2013

Accession Number

52678kh

PUBLICATION YEAR

2013

Keywords

Chinatown, family, identity, heritage, belonging

Book Summary

Twelve-year-old Casey is waiting for the day that Barney, her father, hits it big -- 'cause when that horse comes in, he tells her, it's the penthouse suite. But then hr ends up in the hospital, and Casey is sent to Chinatown to live with her grandmother, Paw-Paw. Now the waiting seems longer than ever. Casey feels lost in Chinatown. She's not prepared for the Chinese school, the noisy crowds, missing her father. But Paw-Paw tells her about the mother Casey never knew, and about her family's owl charm and her true Chinese name. And Casey at last begins to understand that this -- Paw-Paw's Chinatown home, her parents' home -- is her home,too.

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