Maya and the cotton candy boy
By: by Jean Davies Okimoto
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Endicott and Hugh Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Burton, Wash
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780982316740; 9780982316757
Subjects: Teenage immigrants; Family problems; Brothers and sisters; Minority teenagers; Bullying in schools; Juvenile fiction; Bullies; Fiction
Other titles: My favorite chaperone.
Description: Newly arrived from Kazakhstan, twelve-year-old Maya Alazova resents the way her mother babies her brother, but when she leaves her English Language Learner program for mainstream classes and has to deal with a boy, a bully, and conflict at home, she finds her brother can help with their new culture in ways their parents can't.
Notes: "A portion of this novel appeared in the short story 'My Favorite Chaperone' Jean Davies Okimoto in the anthology 'First Crossing: Stories about Teen Immigrants', ed. Donald Gallo, Candlewick Press 2004, paperback 2007"--Title page verso.

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