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Parachutes
Title:
Parachutes
Personal Author EPSB:
Kelly, Yang
Summary:
They're called parachutes: teenagers dropped off to live in private homes and study in the US while their wealthy parents remain in Asia. Claire Wang never thought she'd be one of them, until her parents pluck her from her privileged life in Shanghai and enroll her at a high school in California.
Year Published:
2020-2021
Physical Description:
476 pages ; 22 cm
Awards:
2023 Young Reader’s Choice Award YRCA Senior nominee
Subject:
Chinese students -- Foreign countries -- Fiction.

Teenage girls -- Fiction

Teenage girls -- Crimes against -- Fiction.

Conduct of life -- Fiction

Host families of foreign students -- Fiction

Private schools -- Fiction

Schools -- Fiction

Sexual abuse -- Fiction
Geographic Term:
California -- Fiction

Shanghai (China) -- Fiction
ISBN:
9780062941084

9780062941091
Publisher:
New York, New York : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publisher, 2020.

New York, New York : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2021.

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