Training Days
Kindle Edition
Gemma Open Door · Ebook · December 1, 2017
Training for adulthood is not for wimps.
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- Who it’s for
- Jun-li Lin tackles adolescence through family secrets, unpredictable grown-ups, and awkward household moments.
- Genres
- Coming of Age, Asian American YA, YA Family Stories
- Published
- Gemma Open Door, December 1, 2017
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Training for adulthood is not for wimps. When you are eleven years old, is there anything more humiliating, or bound to cause a fight, than shopping with your mother when your body is in full-throttle warp? Yes, there is: picking out the school-required underwear. Or worse, your mother’s male co-worker shows up at the scene. Or even worse: your brother wants to TALK about it at the dinner table.
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Rites-of-passage are difficult for any young girl, and Jun-li Lin is no exception. The grown-ups in her life are completely unpredictable, and probably out of control. She knows it will take detective-work to figure out her family's secrets and erratic ways. It's up to her to find a way to bring the family together before everyone drifts apart. Training to be an adult, Jun-li discovers, is hard work.
Jun-li’s Family Secrets
Jun-li Lin tackles adolescence through family secrets, unpredictable grown-ups, and awkward household moments.
Come here for
- Jun-li Lin’s detective work on her family’s secrets
- Awkward rites of passage, from underwear shopping to dinner-table talk
Expect
- Unpredictable adults and erratic family ways
- A young girl trying to bring her family together
Where it sits
| Asian American YA | 55% |
|---|---|
| YA Family Stories | 46% |
| Coming of Age | 27% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Vintage Advertising
- Coming-of-Age
- Family Life
- Asian American Fiction
- Authors
- May-lee Chai
- Publisher
- Gemma Open Door
- Published
- December 1, 2017
- Format
- Ebook
- Reading lane
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