A novel to treasure with every middle-grade reader you know (NYTBR),
this first Anna Wang story shows how a young Asian-American girl
navigates her way around friendship and learn to accept that our
diversity is what makes us unique.
In Chinese, peng you means friend. But in any language, all Anna knows
for certain is that friendship is complicated.
When Anna needs company, she turns to her books. Whether traveling
through A Wrinkle in Time, or peering over My Side of the Mountain,
books provide what real life cannot--constant companionship and insight
into her changing world.
Books, however, can't tell Anna how to find a true friend. She'll have
to discover that on her own. In the tradition of classics like Maud Hart
Lovelace's Betsy-Tacy books and Eleanor Estes' One Hundred Dresses,
this novel subtly explores what it takes to make friends and what it
means to be one.