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The Star Fisher
The Star Fisher
Author: Laurence Yep
"This poignant, gently humorous novel is about prejudice and acceptance....15-year-old Joan Lee is a child of two worlds. As a Chinese American, she has never felt her separateness more than now, in 1927, in this new place in West Virginia. Only Miss Lucy, their landlord and neighbor, seems welcoming....There's nothing coy about Yep's portrait o...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780780716391
ISBN-10: 0780716396
Publication Date: 9/1992
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Publisher: Perfection Learning Prebound
Book Type: Unknown Binding
Other Versions: Paperback, Hardcover
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it is a very good book and the star fisher is about a 15 year old girl who is trying to find a buinness and to start new lives.
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Another interesting story from master storyteller, Laurence Yep. How would you like to be the only foreigner in a small West Virginia town. Yep explores this idea with humor, empathy, clear-sightedness, and excellent writing. Based on his own family history.