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Earle, Phil
1 Reviews
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4-6
Short, clumsy fourteen-year-old Charlie lives with his family above their Chinese takeout restaurant, and his only friend is bullied oddball Sinus. Charlie discovers his one true talent--skateboarding--at the same time he discovers his overprotective mother's life-size secret. Written in Charlie's humorous, hyperbolic first-person voice, the story is sometimes implausible and its depiction of the Chinese British tends toward stereotypical.
Reviewer: Amy Seto Forrester
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