Losing It in Translation
Published on 19. June 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
32 pages
978-1-3982-5773-3 (ISBN)
Description
Eleven-year-old Nhia "Silver" Lee is visiting her Hmong grandparents, but she doesn't speak their language, at least not very well. Enter: Anxiety. Nhia fears she won't be able to connect with her grandparents due to this language barrier. Fortunately, while helping her grandpa on the farm and cooking with her grandmother, Nhia discovers that words aren't the only way to show love. Written by Sheelue Yang, this graphic novel is a darkly humorous, normalizing exploration of coming-of-age anxiety through the lens of an authentic pre-teen girl.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Capstone Global Library Ltd
Target group
Children/juvenile
Reading Age: From 8 to 11 years, Interest Age: From 8 to 12 years
Dimensions
Height: 147 mm
Width: 229 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
Weight
86 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-3982-5773-3 (9781398257733)
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Persons
Karen Donnelly is a British illustrator with many years' experience in fiction and non fiction. She grew up loving to draw pictures for the books she was reading and still can't believe that she gets to do it for real! She works in a very, very untidy basement studio, in the company of her grumpy Scottie dog.