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Not Here to Be Liked

Michelle Quach

Ages: 14+

Published: 2021

Publisher: Katherine Tegen/HarperCollins

ISBN: 978-0-06-303836-3

Keywords: feminism, Chinese American culture, parental expectations

Chinese American Eliza finds herself at the center of a schoolwide controversy over gender equality when her private outrage at being passed over for editor-in-chief of the Bugle becomes public.