By Kelly Yang (author)
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From New York Times bestselling author and illustrator, Kelly Yang and Xindi Yan, is a joyful story of a Chinese American girl translating for her immigrant parents. Laila knows how clever, kind, and funny her Mama and Baba are-but sometimes they need her help translating things from English. With English classes being too expensive, Laila decides to become her parents' teacher, even though she's just learning the language too.
There's lots that Laila knows (like you don't pronounce the t in ballet) but there's so much she doesn't know too. Together, they embrace the joy and struggles of learning a new language.
Kelly Yang is the author of Front Desk , which was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and won the 2019 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature.
Kelly’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 her main character. 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.
She is the founder of The Kelly Yang Project, a leading writing and debating program for children in Asia and the United States. Her writing has been published in the South China Morning Post, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Atlantic.
Follow her on Instagram @kellyyanghk
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From New York Times bestselling author and illustrator, Kelly Yang and Xindi Yan, is a joyful story of a Chinese American girl translating for her immigrant parents.Laila knows how clever, kind, and funny her Mama and Baba are-but sometimes they need her help translating things from English. With English classes being too expensive, Laila decides to become her parents' teacher, even though she's just learning the language too.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Little Bird Laila and determined it is suitable for children aged 5-8 years old
Little Bird Laila features in the following genres: Featured Books for 5+ readers, Featured Books for 7+ readers, Stories about Family and Friends, PSHE: Family Issues, Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction, Children’s / Teenage social topics: Migration / refugees, Recommendations, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Personal Social Health Economic (PSHE), Children’s / Teenage: Social issues / topics
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Little Bird Laila was written by Kelly Yang and published by The Dial Press an imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group
Little Bird Laila has 40 pages
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