Maisie Chan

Keep Dancing, Lizzie Chu (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

'So charming' Elle McNicoll, author of A Kind of Spark

'A wonderful, warm and witty tale of family loss, responsibility and the stories and dreams that unite generations' Alex Cotter, author of The House on the Edge

A heart-warming novel from the Blue Peter Book Award shortlisted author of DANNY CHUNG DOES NOT DO MATHS

Twelve-year-old Lizzie Chu lives in Glasgow with her grandad Wai Gong, and he's been acting a little strange lately. He is becoming forgetful, and spends a lot of time talking to his statue of Guan Yin - the Chinese goddess of compassion, kindness and mercy.

Lizzie is worried about Wai Gong, but doesn't really know what to do to help him. She's already got a lot on her plate with caring for him, doing the shopping and everything else on top of schoolwork and the usual trials of being twelve!

Then Lizzie comes up with a madcap plan. She's going to take Wai Gong on the trip of a lifetime, to Blackpool - to the Tower Ballroom, where he always longed to go, to dance with his late wife Grandma Kam. To rekindle that love for dancing and to see if Wai Gong can find his mojo again. The only problem is - just how on earth is she going to get him there?

With a little help from her friends Chi and Tyler, some ingenious costumes and an older brother with a beat-up Mini, Lizzie might just make it - and maybe she will be able to help Wai Gong get better after all?

A moving, humorous, and uplifting intergenerational story for fans of Frank Cottrell Boyce and Benjamin Dean.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Altersempfehlung: ab 9 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781800781849
• Artikelnr.: 70244857

Autorenporträt

Maisie Chan is a British-born Chinese author. She has written early reader books; a collection of fairy tales, myths, and legends in Stories From Around the World; and many stories for The Big Think, a well-being curriculum based around stories for elementary school children. Her middle-grade debut, Danny Chung Sums It Up, won the Jhalak Children’s & YA Prize, the Branford Boase Award, and was on the Blue Peter shortlist. She also writes the Tiger Warrior series under the name M. Chan. She started the group Bubble Tea Writers Network to support and encourage new British East and Southeast Asian writers in the UK and is a DVDebut Mentor with Diverse Voices Inc. When Maisie isn’t writing, she enjoys yoga, dim sum, and singing really loudly. She has lived in the UK, US, and Taiwan. Originally from Birmingham, Maisie now lives with her family in Glasgow.