num_pages: 208
description: 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-ms seventieth birthday together.Since she cant go to A-m Cici cooks up a plan to bring A-m to her by winning the grand prize in a kids cooking contest to pay for A-ms plane ticket! Theres just one problem: Cici only knows how to cook Taiwanese food.And after her pickled cucumber debacle at lunch shes determined to channel her inner Julia Child. Can Cici find a winning recipe to reunite with A-m a way to fit in with her new friends and somehow find herself too?
language: English
title: Measuring Up
publisher: HarperAlley