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Author:

Lai, Remy, author.

Title:

Pie in the sky / Remy Lai.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Henry Holt and Company,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

380 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm

Subject:

Immigrants--Juvenile fiction.
Language and languages--Juvenile fiction.
Schools--Juvenile fiction.
Belonging (Social psychology)--Juvenile fiction.
Cake--Juvenile fiction.
Baking--Juvenile fiction.
Single-parent families--Juvenile fiction.
Australia--Juvenile fiction.
Immigrants--Fiction.
Language and languages--Fiction.
Schools--Fiction.
Belonging (Social psychology)--Fiction.
Cake--Fiction.
Baking--Fiction.
Single-parent families--Fiction.
Australia--Fiction.
JUVENILE FICTION / General.
Baking.
Belonging (Social psychology)
Cake.
Immigrants.
Language and languages.
Schools.
Single-parent families.
Australia.
Immigrants--Juvenile fiction.
Language and languages--Juvenile fiction.
Schools--Juvenile fiction.
Cake--Juvenile fiction.
Baking--Juvenile fiction.
Single-parent families--Juvenile fiction.
Immigrants--Fiction.
Language and languages--Fiction.
School stories.
Cake--Fiction.
Baking--Fiction.
Single-parent families--Fiction.
Australia--Juvenile fiction.
Australia--Fiction.
Humorous fiction--Juvenile literature.
Novels.
Humorous fiction.
Fiction.
Juvenile works.
Children's stories--Comic books, strips, etc.
Humorous fiction.
Novels.
School stories.

Summary:

Knowing very little English, eleven-year-old Jingwen feels like an alien when his family immigrates to Australia, but copes with loneliness and the loss of his father by baking elaborate cakes.
When Jingwen moves to a new country, he feels like he's landed on Mars. School is torture, making friends is impossible since he doesn't speak English, and he's often stuck looking after his (extremely annoying) little brother, Yanghao. To distract himself from the loneliness, Jingwen daydreams about making all the cakes on the menu of Pie in the Sky, the bakery his father had planned to open before he unexpectedly passed away. The only problem is, his mother has laid down one major rule: she's at work. As Jingwen and Yanghao bake elaborate cakes, they'll have to serve elaborate excuses to Mama in order to keep the cake making a secret. In her moving, laugh-out-loud debut illustrated novel, Remy Lai brings to life the story of a young immigrant who feels lost but, through brotherhood, friendship, and lots of baking hijinks, finds his way home. -- From dust jacket.

ISBN:

1250314100
9781250314109
1250314097
9781250314093

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1045187484

LCCN:

2018050006

Locations:

YTPG232 -- Clinton Public Library (Clinton) — Copies: 12

VXPE964 -- Decorah Public Library (Decorah) — Copies: 1

IAOX771 -- State Library of Iowa (Des Moines) — Copies: 10

KOPC446 -- H.J. Nugen Public Library (New London) — Copies: 15 — Kit notes: 1 additional shelf copy, if needed