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American panda

Author: Gloria Chao
Publisher: New York, NY : Simon Pulse, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division, 2018. ©2018
Edition/Format:  Print book : Fiction : Secondary (senior high) school : English : First Simon Pulse hardcover editionView all editions and formats
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A freshman at MIT, seventeen-year-old Mei Lu tries to live up to her Taiwanese parents' expectations, but no amount of tradition, obligation, or guilt prevent her from hiding several truths-- that she is a germaphobe who cannot become a doctor, she prefers dancing to biology, she decides to reconnect with her estranged older brother, and she is dating a Japanese boy. Can she find a way to be herself, before her web  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Young adult fiction
Young adult
Novels
Humorous fiction
Bildungsromans
Young adult works
Juvenile works
Fiction
Juvenile fiction
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Chao, Gloria, 1986-
American panda.
New York : Simon Pulse, 2018
(DLC) 2017045891
Material Type: Fiction, Secondary (senior high) school
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Gloria Chao
ISBN: 9781481499101 1481499106 9781534425699 1534425691 1481499114 9781481499118
OCLC Number: 989964129
Language Note: Text in English.
Description: 310 pages ; 22 cm
Responsibility: Gloria Chao.
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A freshman at MIT, seventeen-year-old Mei Lu tries to live up to her Taiwanese parents' expectations, but no amount of tradition, obligation, or guilt prevent her from hiding several truths-- that she is a germaphobe who cannot become a doctor, she prefers dancing to biology, she decides to reconnect with her estranged older brother, and she is dating a Japanese boy. Can she find a way to be herself, before her web of lies unravels?

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