Measuring up / Lily Lamotte ; Ann Xu.
Having just moved to Seattle from Taiwan, twelve-year-old Cici enters a cooking competition to win the chance to see her grandmother again, but she only knows how to cook Taiwanese food.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062973870
- ISBN: 0062973878
- ISBN: 9781713733812
- ISBN: 1713733811
- Physical Description: 205 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2020.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Chiefly illustrations. |
Target Audience Note: | HL360L Lexile Decoding demand: 88 (very high) Semantic demand: 99 (very high) Syntactic demand: 54 (medium) Structure demand: 87 (very high) Lexile |
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR MG 3 1 509849. |
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Genre: | Graphic novels. |
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- 11 of 12 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 3 of 3 copies available at Jefferson County.
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- 0 current holds with 12 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Jefferson County Library-Arnold | JGRAPHIC LAMOTTE (Text) | 30061100079488 | Juvenile Graphic Novels | Available | - |
Jefferson County Library-Northwest | JGRAPHIC LAMOTTE (Text) | 30051100079497 | Juvenile Graphic Novels | Available | - |
Jefferson County Library-Windsor | JGRAPHIC LAMOTTE (Text) | 30065100079505 | Juvenile Graphic Novels | Available | - |
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Measuring Up
An ALA Top 10 Graphic Novel of 2021 · A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection · Fall 2020 Kids Indie Next List · Featured in Today Show's AAPI Heritage Month list · Amazon Best Books November Selection · Cybils Awards Finalist · An NBC AAPI Selection · Featured in Parents Magazine Book Nook October issue · A CBC Hot off the Press October Selection · WA State Book Awards Finalist · Texas Library Association Little Maverick Selection For fans of American Born Chinese and Roller Girl, Measuring Up is a don't-miss graphic novel debut from Lily LaMotte and Ann Xu! "A beautiful story about food, family, and finding your place in the world." --Gene Luen Yang, author of American Born Chinese and Dragon Hoops "A delicious and heartwarming exploration of identity by a young immigrant trying to find her place in multiple cultures." --Remy Lai, author of Pie in the Sky and Fly on the Wall Twelve-year-old Cici has just moved from Taiwan to Seattle, and the only thing she wants more than to fit in at her new school is to celebrate her grandmother, A-má's, seventieth birthday together. Since she can't go to A-má, Cici cooks up a plan to bring A-má to her by winning the grand prize in a kids' cooking contest to pay for A-má's plane ticket! There's just one problem: Cici only knows how to cook Taiwanese food. And after her pickled cucumber debacle at lunch, she's determined to channel her inner Julia Child. Can Cici find a winning recipe to reunite with A-má, a way to fit in with her new friends, and somehow find herself too