Welcome to the Bank Street Children's Book Committee's (CBC) Searchable Best Books List, a tool designed to help educators, families, librarians, and others access developmentally appropriate and engaging books for young readers (ages birth - 18).
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Tiger Daughter
Rebecca Lim
Ages: 12+
Published: 2023
Publisher: Delacorte Press/Random House Children's Books/PRH
ISBN: 978-0-593-64897-1
Keywords: depression, friendship, families, mothers and daughters, fathers and daughters, Confucianism, filial duty, parental pressure, academics, communities, communalism, suicide
Wen helps a fellow Chinese immigrant student in their Australian school. Both live in poverty, with troubled parents. Could a scholarship to a better school save one of them? Mature content