{"id":10848,"date":"2019-07-13T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=10848"},"modified":"2020-07-11T07:20:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T12:20:26","slug":"making-friends-or-papas-best-cakes-pie-in-the-sky-dreams-by-remy-lai-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=10848","title":{"rendered":"Making friends or Papa’s best cakes – PIE IN THE SKY dreams? by Remy Lai (book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Everything is different,
\nno one understands –
\nmoving to a new country is so hard!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jingwen feels like like an alien when Mom moves him and little brother to Australia, especially when Yanghao picks up English<\/a> so much faster than he can. Or maybe a ghost, since his classmates hardly include him in anything because he’s so quiet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only remembering Papa’s special cakes makes him happy (and sad), so he decides to bake each one, just as Papa taught him back in the family bakery after all the plain, inexpensive ones were done. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why did Mama decide to emigrate, even after Papa died?
\nWhy can’t Jingwen understand English better? Why?
\nWill he be held back at school to be in little brother’s class next year!?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Illustrated middle grade novel with so much heart! (and fantastically yummy descriptions of Papa’s cakes)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How can we understand others when words don’t connect us?
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book info<\/strong>: Pie in the Sky, by Remy Lai. Henry Holt and Company Books for Young Readers, 2019. [author site<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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