Andrea Cheng, Author . Front Street $16.95 (168p) ISBN 978-1-886910-78-2
In this promising debut novel, Cheng sensitively mines her mother's experiences as the daughter of assimilated Jews in 1930s and '40s Budapest. Marika, age six, worries much more about her parents' separation than about her uncle's...
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Andrea Cheng, Author . Front Street $16.95 (160p) ISBN 978-1-886910-99-7
Alternating between the perspectives of two fourth-grade narrators, Cheng (Marika
) proves herself a gifted and sympathetic observer of middle-graders' conflicts and concerns. In the opening chapter, Sarah tries to make sense of the news from...
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Andrea Cheng, Author . Front Street $16.95 (148p) ISBN 978-1-932425-20-8
Like Cheng's earlier novels (Marika
; Honeysuckle House
), this smoothly told tale was inspired by her own family's history. Set in 1933 Budapest, the novel centers on 12-year-old narrator Juli, whose mother commissions a lace maker in the...
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Andrea Cheng, Author . Front Street $16.95 (129p) ISBN 978-1-932425-21-5
Fans of Cheng's Marika
will welcome this quiet yet deeply moving novel set in 1952 and narrated by Marika's son, Peti, an inquisitive, thoughtful eight-year-old. Though his parents have safely emigrated from Hungary to Cincinnati, Peti...
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Andrea Cheng, Author . Boyds Mills/WordSong $16.95 (143p) ISBN 978-1-932425-88-8
In a spare, eloquent novel in verse illustrated with her own bold block prints, Cheng (Marika
) captures the moods of five inner-city third-graders as they prepare themselves for their school's impending demolition. A sense of loss prevails,...
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Andrea Cheng, Boyds Mills, $17.95 (136p) ISBN 978-1-59078-707-6
Eleven-year-old Jerome narrates his feelings of displacement and loss following his single mother's long illness and death, as well as his subsequent move into his cousins' house. In conversations that read like prose poems, he reveals his...
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Andrea Cheng, illus. by Abigail Halpin. Houghton Mifflin, $15.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-547-68463-5
Anna Wang, the narrator of this tender novel, isn’t having an easy time navigating fourth grade. Feeling left out when her friend Laura begins hanging out with another girl, Anna takes refuge in her beloved library books. She is proud of her Chinese-
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Andrea Cheng, Author, Yangsook Choi, Illustrator , illus. by Yangsook Choi. Holt $15.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7153-5
Emotions run affectingly high in Cheng's (Grandfather Counts) gently delivered, tightly written novel. Xiao Jimmy, the 10-year-old narrator, is devoted to his grandmother, Ni Ni, who lives next door. The frail, elderly woman and her grandson...
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Andrea Cheng, Author, Ed Young, Illustrator , illus. by Ed Young. Lee & Low $17.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-58430-238-4
Cheng's (Marika
) vivid writing and Young's (Beyond the Great Mountain
, reviewed above) resonant illustrations mesh perfectly in this story about the close bonds of family. Xiao Mei,
an 11-year-old Chinese-American girl, travels from Ohio...
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Andrea Cheng, Author, Ted Rand, Illustrator , illus. by Ted Rand. Walker $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8027-8831-3
Anna, the protagonist of this tender period piece, sees her father's bookbinding business slipping away, as customers choose the speedy delivery of the big, new binderies (which use glue) over the quality of her father's carefully hand-sewn...
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Andrea Cheng, Author, Michelle Chang, Illustrator, Marcia Vaughan, Author , illus. by Michelle Chang. Lee & Low $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-58430-057-1
Cheng returns for another intergenerational tale after her tender Grandfather Counts. In spare, evocative prose she again explores the relationship between a Chinese-born grandparent and a westernized granddaughter. This time, however, she focuses...
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Andrea Cheng, Author, Nicole Wong, Illustrator , illus. by Nicole Wong. Lee & Low $16.95 (97p) ISBN 978-1-60060-252-8
Cheng (who collaborated with Wong on Brushing Mom's Hair
) offers a quiet yet resonant novel that explores a practice unfamiliar to most American children. Just before Sharon's mother begins a new job, the fourth-grader's parents send
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Andrea Cheng, Author, Ken Condon, Illustrator , illus. by Ken Condon. Boyds Mills $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-932425-60-4
In this understated and affecting story, Aaron’s mama wants a better life for her family—“someplace clean and beautiful.” To her, that means moving the family away from the smelly, noisy city street corner where they live and
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