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"Marsden paints a realistic picture of life in a school of immigrants, where most students are from Mexico. The teacher Americanizes Oy's Thai name, and the class bully labels her Chinese. Marsden uses humor to explore themes such as peer pressure and popularity, belonging, friendship, family ties and tradition, honesty and selfhood. And she does so without overloading her diminutive novel."Marsden, Carolyn is the author of 'Gold-Threaded Dress' with ISBN 9780763615697 and ISBN 0763615692.
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