Emily’s Comments (group member since Jun 30, 2020)

Emily’s comments from the What's the Name of That Book??? group.

Becca wrote: "I searched LibraryThing for books tagged Chinese American + Children's - https://www.librarything.com/tag/Chin...

Authors that seem to have written multiple books with cont..."

Thank you!! I looked at these author pages, and although I don't recognize any of the books, when I go to my local library, I can look on the shelf nearby them (I looked in my library's catalogue and there are some books by Grace Lin).

Rainbowheart wrote: "Also Lensey Namioka, Laurence Yep, and Andrea Cheng.

But that treehouse detail is killing me. I can't think of anything that would be remotely close."

For the treehouse - I remember it wasn't so much a treehouse in the a "Magic Treehouse" sense - it was more of a house in a tree or several trees if that makes sense? They had to climb a ladder to get in and I remember the grandmother lived with them and she climbed the ladder too.

Kris wrote: "Emily, that's a good start. Please add more plot details (from your comments) to the topic header (title), so someone can recognize your book from that description alone. We have thousands of book ..."

I will try to expand, I read it so long ago I'm having trouble remembering. But I DO remember that I really enjoyed it. I'll do some brainstorming. Thank you for responding so quickly!!

This is a children's novel - around 150 pages or less. A young girl lives with her traditional Chinese family. She balances life in America with traditional family values. I remember distinctly that they lived in some sort of treehouse and I remember her description of the mooncakes during the Lunar New Year. I read this book around 2008. There were several similar books by the same author that all centered around a young Chinese-American girl (different girls in each book).

Further details I can remember are that the treehouse (it was a real house, but either raised in some trees, or built into a tree, not sure) had a ladder and the grandmother in the story also climbed the ladder, which was really impressive because she was elderly and it was very high up.