 | Uprooted : a memoir about what happens when your family moves back Author: Chan, Ruth | |
| Price: $12.29 | ||
Summary:
Ruth Chan loves her hometown in Toronto, hanging out with her best friends for life, and snacking on ketchup flavored potato chips, which are the best. What Ruth doesn't love is having to move to Hong Kong after her dad gets a new job there. In Hong Kong, her classes are harder, her Cantonese isn't good enough, and her parents are never around. Ruth feels lonely and completely uprooted. In graphic novel format.
| Accelerated Reader Information: Interest Level: MG Reading Level: 2.70 Points: 1.0 Quiz: 553365 |
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews (+) (12/01/24)
School Library Journal (+) (09/01/24)
Booklist (+) (09/15/24)
The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (+) (00/09/24)
The Hornbook (00/11/24)
Full Text Reviews:
Booklist - 09/15/2024 *Starred Review* Tween Ruth is apprehensive about leaving everything she loves in Canada as her family moves to her mother’s hometown of Hong Kong. Lonely and uncertain, with her dad often away on business and her mom busy with family and old friends, Ruth navigates all kinds of unfamiliar, unappetizing novelties—languages, food, school—all while juggling universal teenage challenges—friendship fluctuations, enigmatic boys, the endless search for a decent cool-kid vibe. In their traditional bedtime talks, her dad tries to help with details about his perilous birth when his parents were in a desperate flight from war. The tale of that displaced family’s narrow survival long ago doesn’t immediately resonate with Ruth; when much in her unmanageable new life goes even further downhill, she feels utterly alone and adrift. Though angry and defiant, Ruth ultimately manages hard conversations with her family and friends that she finds both revelatory and redemptive. Experienced illustrator Chan tells this lovely, lively, open-hearted memoir with her signature appealing style: clear lines and flat colors in well-paced panels present relatable characters and offer compelling narrative detail. A sensitive, authentic, and funny portrayal of a real kid grappling with change and uncertainty, and showing that persistence, courage, and patience make all the difference in finding that your place in the world really can be right where you are. - Copyright 2024 Booklist.
