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I Want Candy
Contributor(s): Keltner, Kim Wong (Author)
ISBN: 0060847980     ISBN-13: 9780060847982
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
OUR PRICE:   $14.24  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 2008
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Fourteen-year-old Candace Ong is wasting away in wonderland--Eggroll Wonderland, the restaurant where her under-Americanized family toils in San Francisco. She loves rock candy and rock music, jelly beans and jelly shoes--and hangs with her best friend Ruby, whose wild life she envies. Candace wants more than another stifling summer stuck in the kitchen. So when a new opportunity arises, she leaps at the chance--even though it means leaving home to experience a tantalizing, dangerous life far beyond the dim sum ho hum. But the waiting world may be a lot more than one brainiac Chinese Lolita can safely handle.
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Coming Of Age
- Fiction | Asian American
- Fiction | Women
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2007020024
Lexile Measure: 990
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.06" W x 8.02" (0.42 lbs) 288 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
- Topical - Family
 
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Fourteen-year-old Candace Ong is wasting away in wonderland--Eggroll Wonderland, the restaurant where her under-Americanized family toils in San Francisco. She loves rock candy and rock music, jelly beans and jelly shoes--and hangs with her best friend Ruby, whose wild life she envies. Candace wants more than another stifling summer stuck in the kitchen. So when a new opportunity arises, she leaps at the chance--even though it means leaving home to experience a tantalizing, dangerous life far beyond the dim sum ho hum. But the waiting world may be a lot more than one brainiac Chinese Lolita can safely handle.


Contributor Bio(s): Keltner, Kim Wong: -

The only thing that keeps Kim Wong Keltner from writing is when she's trapped under an avalanche of her daughter's stuffed animals. Keltner is the author of The Dim Sum of All Things, Buddha Baby, and I Want Candy. Tiger Babies Strike Back is her first work of nonfiction.