Title Tiger daughter / Rebecca Lim

Published Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2021 ©2021

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Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
MELB CRC	JUNIOR FICTION Lim/Tda		AVAILABLE
W'PONDS CRC	JUNIOR FICTION Lim/Tda		AVAILABLE

Description 206 pages ; 21 cm Summary "My study buddy, Henry, has made it his mission to get me to an A in maths the way I'm trying to get him to an A in English". Wen Zhou is the daughter and only child of Chinese immigrants whose move to the lucky country has proven to be not so lucky. Wen and her friend, Henry Xiao whose mum and dad are also poor immigrants, both dream of escape from their unhappy circumstances, and they form a plan to sit an entrance exam to a selective high school far from home. But when tragedy strikes, it will take all of Wen's resilience and resourcefulness to get herself and Henry through the storm that follows. Tiger Daughter is a novel that will grab hold of you and not let go Analysis Australian Audience For secondary school age Notes Winner of the Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards 2022, Older Readers category Subject Families -- Fiction Children's stories Children of immigrants -- Fiction Children of immigrants -- Juvenile fiction Premier's Reading Challenge -- Year 7 - Year 9 Children of immigrants -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction Children of immigrants -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction Australian fiction Chinese Australians -- Juvenile fiction Families -- Juvenile fiction Chinese -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction Immigrant families -- Australia -- Juvenile fction Friendship -- Juvenile fiction Immigrants -- Chinese -- Juvenile fiction Children of immigrants. Families. Genre/Form Children's stories Young adult fiction Fiction. Australian fiction Young adult fiction Children's stories Domestic fiction. ISBN 9781760877644

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