Title: The bubble wrap boy
Description: Fourteen-year-old social outcast Charlie Han, known as "the short Chinese kid" at school, searches for a talent to improve his popularity, but when he discovers skateboarding, much to the disapproval of his overprotective mother, he also uncovers a huge family secret.
Subjects: Families, Chinese, Secrets, Bildungsromans, Family life, Fiction, Coming of age, Skateboarding, Chinese fiction, Friendship, Secrecy, Juvenile fiction
Places: England