The Year of the Fortune Cookie
Illustrator
Patrice Barton
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication Year
2015
ISBN
9780544455924
Pages
176 pages
Genre
realism
Format
chapter book
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
Eleven-year-old Anna takes a trip to China and learns more about herself and her Chinese heritage.
Grade Level
K-3
Lexile Measure
690L
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Racial Diversity; Culture/Ethnicity; Adoption; Interracial; Bicultural; Bilingual; Immigrants and refugees; adopted baby; adoptive family; international adoption; interracial friendship; mixed race; different cultures; bicultural child; bilingual child; immigrant parents
Main Character
female child
Race/Ethnicities
Asian (Chinese) / White
Family Formation
mother and father
Awards
Choices, 2015
The de Grummond Children's Literature Collection
Keywords
identity; Chinese Americans; China; friendship; baking; middle school; fundraising; bake sale; misconceptions; China's one baby policy
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Cheng, Andrea, "The Year of the Fortune Cookie" (2015). Diverse Families. 804.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/804