Middle-Grade Review: Room to Dream

One category of mid-level travel is books that are Asian or located in Asia. In my notes, I find Kelly Young's dream room, which has both. I was very happy to hear the interesting story of Mia, a Chinese American who returned to China with her family.

Mia Tan felt that seventh grade was a little difficult. Things looked different this year, but at least she was with her two best friends, Jason Loop. Loop was then transferred to several high school classes, and Jason began acting strangely. Mia's parents own a small hotel in the city (where they live with Lupe) that they have been saving for years to travel to China to visit them. The time has finally come. They were going to spend six weeks in China. Mia was eager to see her cousins, grandparents, and other family members whom she had not seen in five years. It was great to see everyone again: Mia had a hard time adjusting to the changes in California. But he loves spending time with his family, meeting his cousins, when Mia is here, something extraordinary happens. Dreams of becoming a writer and getting a well-paid job. He was hired to write a column in a Chinese college newspaper about being an American high school student. Her column is very popular, but Mia wonders if she should write such personal things about her friends. But they'll never see it, right? Only his parents returned home and faced new problems. There is an offer to buy a hotel, Mia is increasingly moving away from her best friend.

It's like the third book in a trilogy, but I easily immersed myself in it without having read the first two books. The author does a great job of laying the groundwork for making this a standalone novel (although now that I know Mia and her friends and family, I'd like to read more). It's a fun novel with a sense of humor, but also full of all sorts of themes related to family, company, community, immigration, diversity. I like the way the author draws parallels between China's "California problem" in the 1990s. Big problems, like department store centrifugation, maternity store closures, are less of a problem for college students. Mia, on the other hand, dreams of becoming a writer, but she needs to understand what it means to put her relationship first. I love this interesting story.

320 pages, school press

school audio

This book meets the following 22 reading challenges for 2022 .

Challenge of Diversity

Literary Escape Challenge - California (probably the first of many).

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