May 2024 - Page 9 of 10 - Anastasia Suen

Mami King: How Ma Mon Luk Found Love, Riches, and the Perfect Bowl of Soup
by Jacqueline Chio-Lauri (Author) and Kristin Sorra (Illustrator)
@ Amazon | Bookshop

Booktalk: Rejected by the parents of the girl he loves for being poor, Ma Mon Luk strikes out from China and boards a steamship headed for the Philippines in 1918. He vows to make a fortune and return for his beloved. Ma creates a chicken noodle soup he calls mami–“ma” for his name and “mi” for noodles–and peddles it as a street vendor. He eventually earns enough to open his own restaurant and wins the approval of the parents of his true love.

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Nonfiction Monday

It’s Nonfiction Monday!

Water: Discovering the Precious Resource All Around Us
by Olga Fadeeva (Author / Illustrator) and Lena Traer (Translator)
@ Amazon* | Bookshop*

Booktalk: Water is everywhere, and we rely on it every single day. But do you ever wonder about water? How much water is on our planet? What happens when there is too much water or too little water? Why does it rain? What are lakes, rivers, seas, and oceans? Why are the seas and oceans blue and salty? What lives underwater? What about water in human history–how did people get water in ancient times? How do we get water today? What do humans build to travel on the water, and how have we harnessed waterpower? How do we protect this amazing resource for the future? Find the answers in this middle grade book!

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It’s STEM Friday! (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)