Friday, August 10, 2012
The Year of the Rat by Grace Lin (reviewed by Ginger, age 11)
The Year of the Rat was an intriguing book. It is a biography about the author's life. When Melody (Grace's friend) moves to California, the enemy moves in. The enemy is Chinese and the principal has asked Grace's family to go have dinner with them. Grace then realizes that people have been mean to Dun-wei (the enemy). When Grace goes to school she tells her friends that she does not think it is nice to make fun of Dun-wei. Her friend Charlotte agrees and says that she will not call him names. The Year of the Rat had a very good moral. Grace Lin's other books are just as good.
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Your review makes me want to read it.
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Wow. I like the sounds of this book. Grace has a lot of courage that most of us do not have. It is never easy to stand up to your friends and other people, even when you don't agree or feel it is wrong. This sounds like a good reminder for all of us. We will have to look at some of her books.
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