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Home in a Lunchbox

Cherry Mo

Illustrator: Cherry Mo

Ages: 6+

Published: 2024

Publisher: Penguin Workshop/Penguin Random House

ISBN: 978-0-593-66134-5

Keywords: Family/School/Community-Chinese Food, Cantonese, Making Friends, Language Barriers

Jun has just moved to America from Hong Kong and knows no English. Everything goes wrong at school except having her lunch, which smells and tastes like home. Digital illustrations. Cantonese glossary.