By: Kelly Yang
The third book in the award-winning middle-grade series following Mia Tang and her family as they run a motel in California and face the unique challenges that come with being immigrants to the US. This book finds Mia travelling back to Beijing to see her cousin; and discovering that she’s now caught between two worlds.
About the Author
Kelly Yang's family immigrated to the United States from China when she was a young girl, and she grew up in California, in circumstances very similar to those of Mia Tang. She eventually left the motels and went to college at the age of 13, and is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Harvard Law School. Upon graduation, she gave up law to pursue her dream of writing and teaching kids writing. She is the founder of The Kelly Yang Project, a leading writing and debating program for children in Asia and the United States. She is also a columnist for the South China Morning Post and has been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, and the Atlantic. Kelly is the mother of three children and splits her time between Hong Kong and San Francisco.