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Danny Chung Sums It Up
by Maisie Chan (Author) and Natelle Quek (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Eleven-year-old Danny’s life is turned upside down when his Chinese grandmother comes to live with his family in England. Things get worse when Danny finds out he’ll have to share his room with her, and she took the top bunk! At first, Danny is frustrated that he can’t communicate with her because she doesn’t speak English—and because he’s on the verge of failing math and Nai Nai was actually a math champion back in the day. It just feels like he and his grandmother have nothing in common. His parents insist that Danny help out, so when he’s left to look after Nai Nai, he leaves her at the bingo hall for the day to get her off his back. But he soon discovers that not everyone there is as welcoming as he expected . . .

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Listen to the author read an excerpt. FYI: In the UK, the title is Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths.

Hamster Chase (Penguin Young Readers, Level 3)
by Anastasia Suen (Author) and Allan Eitzen (Illustrator)
@ Amazon | IndieBound | Overdrive | WorldCat

Booktalk: When Peter takes the class hamster out of his cage, the hamster escapes. Peter and his friends search the classroom, but every time they come close, Mikey the hamster runs away again! How will Peter and his friends ever get Mikey back into his cage?

Snippet:
Mikey ran toward the classroom door.
Peter, Archie, and Amy ran after him.
“Quick!” said Peter, “close the door.”

This week’s author visit mini-comic answers the question, Do you have a pet? and shows the connection between my childhood pets and this beginning reader story with Ezra Jack Keats’ characters.

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Danny Chung Sums it Up

Hamster Chase read aloud