Front Desk (Front Desk #1) (Scholastic Gold)

by Kelly Yang

Plus, I liked English. I liked how you could say “a train of thought” or “a blanket of snow,” which you couldn’t in Chinese.

“The thing about prejudice is you can’t tell people not to be prejudiced. You’ve got to show them. It’s like writing.”

Often during tough times, the first instinct is to exclude. But this book is about what happens when you include, when, despite all your suffering and your heartache, you still wake up every morning and look out at the world with fresh, curious eyes.