As a digital subscriber, you’ll receive unlimited access to Horn Book web exclusives and extensive archives, as well as access to our highly searchable Guide/Reviews Database.
To access other site content, visit The Horn Book homepage.
To continue you need an active subscription to hbook.com.
Subscribe now to gain immediate access to everything hbook.com has to offer, as well as our highly searchable Guide/Reviews Database, which contains tens of thousands of short, critical reviews of books published in the United States for young people.
Thank you for registering. To have the latest stories delivered to your inbox, select as many free newsletters as you like below.
No thanks. Return to article
(2)
YA
Lucy Lam wins a scholarship to elite girls' school Laurinda, leaving behind her shabby Melbourne suburb, Chinese-Vietnamese-immigrant parents, baby brother, and closest companion Linh. But Lucy's unwillingness to conform to the ethnic-novelty role turns her into a targeted pariah. In Pung's Australian import, Lucy's first-person missives to Linh pull readers alongside her uncertain navigation of two worlds; readers will cheer as Lucy embraces who she is.