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Gr 8-Up The pack of lies about her academic achievement that Mina has told to satisfy her mother -s high expectations (she has her heart set on her daughter going to Harvard) is unraveling as her senior year approaches. Jonathon Kim, a Stanford-bound teen and the son of her mother -s best friend, has helped with the deception by forging Mina -s report cards and backing up her many fictions. He asks too much of her, though, while Ysrael, the attractive new employee in the family cleaning business, encourages her to follow her own dreams -and him ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Again writing about a Korean-American immigrant family, the author of the Printz Medal-winning A Step from Heaven (rev. 7/01) explores the dynamics of familial and romantic love. Academic pressure from her mother has led narrator Mina to concoct a string of lies: funneling money from her parents' dry cleaning business, Mina plans to get an apartment, pretend she's at Harvard, and work to pay back the...Log In or Sign Up to Read More