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21st out of 127 books
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15 voters
Seeing Emily
The stunning new talent, Joyce Lee Wong, delivers a poignant, lyrical novel about the experiences of a Chinese American teenage girl by a stunning new talent.
In the successful style of David Levithan's The Realm of Possibility and Sonya Sones' What My Mother Doesn't Know, this free verse novel introduces readers to sixteen-year-old Emily, one of three Asian students at her...more
In the successful style of David Levithan's The Realm of Possibility and Sonya Sones' What My Mother Doesn't Know, this free verse novel introduces readers to sixteen-year-old Emily, one of three Asian students at her...more
Paperback, 288 pages
Published
March 1st 2007
by Harry N. Abrams
(first published March 1st 2005)
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Sixteen year old Emily has always done what is expected of her. She works hard, stays out of trouble, and gets along well with her parents. After meeting a new guy at school, Emily decides that like her drawings and paintings, she would like to be a blank canvas, ready to be designed differently. However, when Nick tries to get her to become someone she isn’t, Emily becomes confused as to who she really is. A trip to her parents’ homeland of Taiwan, Emily finds out who she really is.
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Katie Young
Multicultural
Emily is a regular high school student in every way except she is Chinese. Although she was born in America, has attended school in America since Kindergarten, and speaks the English language better than her Chinese, she is different. She came to realize exactly who she is through experiences with her friends, parents, and boyfriend. Emily saw who she really was after a visit with family in Taiwan.
This book was written in free verse which works well because Emily is a gif...more
Multicultural
Emily is a regular high school student in every way except she is Chinese. Although she was born in America, has attended school in America since Kindergarten, and speaks the English language better than her Chinese, she is different. She came to realize exactly who she is through experiences with her friends, parents, and boyfriend. Emily saw who she really was after a visit with family in Taiwan.
This book was written in free verse which works well because Emily is a gif...more
Emily is a teenager whose parents own a Chinese restaurant and loves to paint. Her mom always used to paint with her but now is always very busy. I think that we can all relate to that some way or another. Whether it is our parents own a restaurant and never have time for us or if they are always working. I feel that I can relate to this book because my dad works during the days and always travels. When my dad is home, he is always doing something else or is tired. My mom on the other hand work...more
Dec 03, 2010
Krista the Krazy Kataloguer
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4 of 5 stars
Shelves:
read-novels-in-verse,
read-ya
This YA novel centers around Emily Wu, a Chinese American girl, who throughout the story tries to determine when she should be American and when she should be Chinese. Wong clearly portrays the duality of Emily's cultural background and the conflict and misunderstandings it creates in her life. Especially vivid were the scenes with boyfriend Nick and Nick's parents, who apparently either didn't know or didn't care that they were being offensive to Emily with their ignorant remarks. They saw her...more
The most unsatisfactory element of the book is Emily's relationship with Nick. I don't know if part of the problem was the fact that the novel was in free-verse and so I felt as though there was less dialogue but I wasn't buying their relationship. A transfer student, a year older than Emily, sees her suddenly in the hallway and decides to be extra friendly? Emily describes herself as plain (I no longer have the book so no exact quotes) and I think their relationship would have been more plausib...more
I expected more. I've developed an interest in poetry recently and I kind of felt like this book was turning me off it again. It's not a really well developed story. I thought there were parts that were good but overall it was just kind of meandering until the last section. The parts with Nick and her girlfriends were all so blah. I skimmed to the ending.
Normally I go ga-ga over second generation immigrants' stories but not this one...
Normally I go ga-ga over second generation immigrants' stories but not this one...
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Lovely language, beautiful images, interesting culture, rather thin story.
Beautifully written metaphors.
May 11, 2010
Chelsea
rated it
3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
9th graders and up
This was a beautiful peice. While it is written in poetry it is wonderful in immage and plot. I do think at points it was sterotypical and cleche it was a cute read. The charecter was wonderfully developed but i wanted to konw more about her family and thier thoughts since they played such a part in the book.
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At first I wasn't sure about the free verse but I came to appreciate the way it provided an interesting opportunity for rich description. I enjoyed reading about Emily's day to day experiences navigating family life and the high school social scene. I was particularly moved by the author's discussion of Emily's artistic work as well as the exploration of the challenges Emily faced as a Chinese American.
May 23, 2009
Emily
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
challenge-2009,
to-buy
This book is the story of an Asian High School Student whose parents own a restaurant and expect her to do well in all of her classes. It was an entertaining and insightful novel that was written poetically throughout the book. Emily was a curious and artful character who experiences falling in love for the first time and her struggles through High School and keeping her grades up.
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I thought the story was really good and I really enjoy reading this book and I also thought it was a very quick read I would recommend this book if u like quick reads. :)
Jul 23, 2008
Taija
marked it as to-read
IRA Lee Bennett Hopkins Award: given every 3 years to a promising new author of poetry for young people
Poem-like novel is catchy, but too bold for a story.
this was such a good book, i highly recomend it!
very cute book.
i could not put it down!
i could not put it down!
Seeing Emily by Joyce Lee Wong (2005)
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