American Born Chinese
Published by Roaring Brook Press 2006 233 pages
Genre: Family Life, Multicultural, Social Life, Graphic Novel
Reading Level: Young Adult
Summary: This book originally starts as three different stories that combine that in a completely unexpected plot twist. Ali Jin Wang is suddenly the only Chinese American in his new school and he falls for an American girl and tries to change himself to please her. There is also the story of the Monkey King and Danny and his cousin Chin-Kee. Chin-Kee is the perfect negative Chinese stereotype and this visits are ruining his cousin’s life.
Response: I liked this book. It gave me a different perspective and made me think about our presumptions of people from other cultures. For example, the teacher assumes that both Ali Jin Wang and Wei-Chen Sun are both from China and neither of them is.
Cautionary notes: Negative stereotypes and racial slurs
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