Award-winning author Wendy Wan-Long Shang brews a frothy and bright
story, filled with humor and heart, about friendship, first crushes, and
finding one's own way in Bubble Trouble.
How many problems can a delicious cup of bubble tea cause? Plenty, if
you're Chloe Chen. For starters, Chloe wants to go on the class trip to
Broadway -- an expense Chloe's not sure she and her dad can afford since
her mom passed away -- and those yummy cups of boba cost money. And then
there's the fact that the incorrigible Henry Lee is the bobamaster at
Tea Palace, and when he's not annoying Chloe, he's usually coming up
with the perfect drink for every occasion. For Chloe, lover of neatness
and control, the arrival of bubble tea is nothing but trouble!
But bubble tea really wreaks havoc when Chloe finds herself banned from
Tea Palace (for dumping boba on someone who really deserved it!). She
comes up with the idea to make her own boba and sell it, with the help
of her best friend Sabrina, her inventor dad and (whether she wants it
or not) her rescue dog. Suddenly neatnik Chloe will have to contend with
sticky drinks, the complications of running her own business and...maybe
the messiness of admitting that she actually like-likes someone? Will
Chloe be able to step out of the bubble she has built around herself and
into an exciting new adventure to go along with her boba tea?
