Bitter melon
By: Cara Chow
Publisher: Egmont USA
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9781606841266; 9781606842041
Subjects: Child abuse; Chinese Americans; Juvenile fiction; Fiction; High schools; Schools; Mothers and daughters; Self-actualization (Psychology); History
Description: Frances, a Chinese-American student in a competitive school in San Francisco in the 1980s, begins to question her mother's insistence that she becomes a doctor when she accidentally enrolls in a speech class and discovers a hidden talent.

Frances, a Chinese American student in a competitive school in San Francisco in the 1980s, begins to question her mother's insistence that she become a doctor when she accidentally enrolls in a speech class and discovers a hidden talent.
Notes: School Library Journal, January 2011

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