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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/118944.American_Born_Chinese?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="American Born Chinese" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1171765431m/118944.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/118944.American_Born_Chinese?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">American Born Chinese</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/68959.Gene_Luen_Yang">Gene Luen Yang</a> 
 <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21174342?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a>
 rating: 5 of 5 stars English 425					Submitter’s name Crystal Alexander Book Bank					Book Bank subject: American Born Chinese Reference information: Title: American Born Chinese Author: Gene Luen Yang Publisher: First Second	Year: 2006 # of pages: 233	Genre: Reading level: 5th Grade	Interest level: 6th or 7th Grade Potential hot lava: Some of the Language, and the binding of the feet to make babies General response/reaction: I thought that it was a really cute story. I was confused at the beginning on how all the stories were related, but once I got to the end I realized how they were all tied in together. Subjects, Themes, and Big Ideas: A big Theme of the book is being true to who you are. Being yourself is what makes you special. I think that this is a good topic for teenagers because a lot of them want to be people that they are not. Characters: Little Monkey: He wants to be a human who wares shoes and a fighter who is the most noble. He gets buried under a pile of rocks for 500 years. Jin Wang: Little boy that was born in an America, for the longest time he likes who he is. When get gets older and doesn’t get the girl the he wants he wishes that he was someone else. Wei-Chen Sun: New to the school from Thailand, doesn’t speak very good English, but becomes best friends with Jin. Danny: A teenager, who isn’t really shy, likes who he is and makes the basketball team at school. Chin-Kee: Danny’s cousin is really annoying and comes to visit Danny once a year, every year. Plot summary: Little Monkey is the King of Fruit Hill, when he goes up to party with the gods; they reject him because he is a Monkey. He goes back down to Earth and learns Kung-Fu, mediation, and transformation. He transforms into a larger Monkey and begins to ware shoes. When the king of the gods finds out about this he is mad with little monkey so he buries him under a mountain of rocks for 500 hundred years until he can learn to be his true self. Jin Wang is a Chinese boy who was born in America. He is obsessed with transformers. When his mom goes to the Herbiest to heal pain, his wife asks Jin what he wants to be when get grows up, and he tells her a transformer. When he goes to school he isn’t too much of an outcast but he does have lunch alone, until a new boy from Thailand comes, Wei-Chen. They are best friends, until Jin kisses Wei-Chen’s girlfriend. Danny is a true American boy; he likes girls and makes the basketball team. But his cousin Chin-Kee comes to visit him every year and it embarrasses Danny. He tries to over come his embarrassment but he doesn’t seem to be able to over come his inhabitations. Strengths (including reviews and awards): Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award, National Book Award Finalist “As an Asian American, American Born Chinese is the book I’ve been waiting for all my life.” –Derek Kirk Kim :Like Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Laurence Yep’s Dragonwings, [American Born Chinese] explores the impact of the American Dream on those outside the dominate culture in a finely wrote story.” -School Library Journal, starred review Drawbacks or other cautions: There really no draw backs or cautions, I think that some of the foot binding might be a little hard for kids to understand if they never heard of the before. I think that most of the book teenagers would find funny. Teaching ideas: I would teach this in accordance with sex education. I think that kids try to be people that they are not, and I think that it would be a good idea to show them that it is a true value to be who you are. 
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bookshelves: multicultural-lit

English 425 Submitter’s name Crystal Alexander
Book Bank Book Bank subject: American Born Chinese

Reference information:
Title: American Born Chinese
Author: Gene Luen Yang
Publisher: First Second Year: 2006
# of pages: 233 Genre:
Reading level: 5th Grade Interest level: 6th or 7th Grade
Potential hot lava: Some of the Language, and the binding of the feet to make babies

General response/reaction: I thought that it was a really cute story. I was confused at the beginning on how all the stories were related, but once I got to the end I realized how they were all tied in together.

Subjects, Themes, and Big Ideas: A big Theme of the book is being true to who you are. Being yourself is what makes you special. I think that this is a good topic for teenagers because a lot of them want to be people that they are not.

Characters: Little Monkey: He wants to be a human who wares shoes and a fighter who is the most noble. He gets buried under a pile of rocks for 500 years.
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