Andrea Wang
1) Watercress
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English
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Description
Embarrassed about gathering watercress from a roadside ditch, a girl learns to appreciate her Chinese heritage after learning why the plant is so important to her parents.
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Meilan Hua's world consists of her comforts and loves--her family's matriarch, Nainai, her family's bakery in Boston's Chinatown, and her beloved books of Chinese fairy tales. Sorrow comes when Nainai passes away and her parents and grieving grandfather have to move from Chinatown in Boston to Redbud, Ohio. There, Meilan must rediscover herself, and she does so through exploring the many iterations and facets of her name as it appears in different...
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While driving through Ohio in an old Pontiac, a young girl's Chinese immigrant parents spot watercress growing wild in a ditch by the side of the road. They stop the car, grabbing rusty scissors and an old paper bag, and the whole family wades into the mud to gather as much as they can. At first, she's embarrassed. Why can't her family just get food from the grocery store, like everyone else? But when her mother shares a bittersweet story of her
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