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Tiger Daughter

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★FIVE STARRED REVIEWS★ NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS, BOOKLIST AND MORE!
Equal parts heartbreaking and hopeful, Tiger Daughter is an award-winning novel about finding your voice amidst the pressures of growing up in an immigrant home told from the perspective of a remarkable young Chinese girl.

Wen Zhou is a first-generation daughter of Chinese migrant parents. She has high expectations from her parents to succeed in school, especially her father whose strict rules leave her feeling trapped. She dreams of creating a future for herself more satisfying than the one her parents expect her to lead. 
Then she befriends a boy named Henry who is also a first generation immigrant. He is the smartest boy at school despite struggling with his English and understands her in a way nobody has lately. Both of them dream of escaping and together they come up with a plan to take an entrance exam for a selective school far from home. 
But when tragedy strikes, it will take all of Wen’s resilience and tiger strength to get herself and Henry through the storm that follows. 
Tiger Daughter is a coming-of-age novel that will grab hold of you and not let go.
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from July 3, 2023
      Because of 13-year-old Wen Li Zhou’s struggles with math, her father often deems her a “useless, insolent child.” His verbal abuse also extends to her mother; once a vivacious woman, she now acts reserved to avoid Wen’s father’s outbursts. Wen finds peace with her best friend Henry Xiao. Both teens live in Australia with their Chinese immigrant families, and both plan to take the upcoming entrance exam to an “amazing, government-funded selective school,” believing that attending it will change their lives for the better. When Henry’s mother dies by suicide, however, everything comes to a standstill. Henry won’t leave his house, and Wen’s parents want her to stay away from him, but she refuses to let him suffer alone. To help Henry, Wen must tap into her own strength and learn to stand up for herself. Lim (the Mercy series) draws on her own experiences as a migrant child growing up in Australia, as outlined in an author’s note, to deliver an eye-opening novel that covers weighty issues of abuse, grief, mental health stigma, racism, and sexism alongside the harsh realities faced by Wen and Henry’s families. A tidy, uplifting ending, paired with Wen’s vulnerable first-person voice, round out this heartstring-tugging read. Ages 10–up.

    • Books+Publishing

      November 5, 2020
      From Rebecca Lim, author and co-editor of the Meet Me at the Intersection YA anthology, this coming-of-age tale is about finding your own voice as a young girl in a minority group, a perspective that so often goes unheard or is overshadowed. Tiger Daughter is a powerful and important new YA novel that is overflowing with empathy and authenticity; every character is written with such intricacy and nuance that they come to feel like real people. Wen, as the only child of Chinese immigrants, embodies the difficulties of being a young girl growing up with familial, cultural and societal expectations and her character is sure to resonate with teens and young adults. When I was growing up, there were very few books I read that included characters who looked like me. As an only child with Chinese immigrants on my dad’s side of the family, it is refreshing to read a YA novel that I can see myself in and that reflects my own experiences. If only a book like this had been written and published 20-odd years ago! Despite its complex themes, which include how to be a friend to someone whose mother takes her own life, Tiger Daughter is a thoroughly enjoyable and easy read, peppered with heartfelt and hopeful moments that will leave readers with a renewed faith in humanity. Solidifying what Lim aimed to do in Meet Me at the Intersection—champion Own Voices stories—Tiger Daughter is by far her most standout piece of work yet. It sits easily alongside Australian coming-of-age award-winners like Looking for Alibrandi, Laurinda and Amelia Westlake. Freelance reviewer Mischa Parkee is a bookseller, primary school teacher and YA enthusiast. Read her interview with Rebecca Lim about Tiger Daughter here.

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  • Lexile® Measure:980
  • Text Difficulty:5-7

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