I Want Candy

Informationen zum Autor The only thing that keeps Kim Wong Keltner from writing is when she’s trapped under an avalanche of her daughter’s stuffed animals. Keltner is the author of The Dim Sum of All Things, Buddha Baby, and I Want Candy. Tiger Babies Strike Back is her first work of nonfiction. Klappentext Fourteen-year-old Candace Ong is wasting away in wonderland?Eggroll Wonderland, the restaurant where her under-Americanized family toils in San Francisco. She loves rock candy and rock music, jelly beans and jelly shoes?and hangs with her best friend Ruby, whose wild life she envies. Candace wants more than another stifling summer stuck in the kitchen. So when a new opportunity arises, she leaps at the chance?even though it means leaving home to experience a tantalizing, dangerous life far beyond the dim sum ho hum. But the waiting world may be a lot more than one brainiac Chinese Lolita can safely handle. Zusammenfassung Fourteen-year-old Candace Ong is wasting away in wonderland—Eggroll Wonderland! the restaurant where her under-Americanized family toils in San Francisco. She loves rock candy and rock music! jelly beans and jelly shoes—and hangs with her best friend Ruby! whose wild life she envies. Candace wants more than another stifling summer stuck in the kitchen. So when a new opportunity arises! she leaps at the chance—even though it means leaving home to experience a tantalizing! dangerous life far beyond the dim sum ho hum. But the waiting world may be a lot more than one brainiac Chinese Lolita can safely handle.

Product details

• Authors: Kim Wong Keltner
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.01.2008
• EAN: 9780060847982
• ISBN: 978-0-06-084798-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 159 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Romance / Contemporary, FICTION: Romance / Romantic Comedy, FICTION: Asian American, FICTION: Coming of Age, FICTION: Magical Realism, FICTION: Romance / Multicultural & Interracial, FICTION: World Literature / American / 21st Century, FICTION: World Literature / Asia (General)