{"id":11181,"date":"2020-04-29T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=11181"},"modified":"2020-07-21T08:20:01","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T13:20:01","slug":"y-for-be-yourself-pippa-park-raises-her-game-by-erin-yun-middle-grade-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=11181","title":{"rendered":"Y for be yourself? PIPPA PARK RAISES HER GAME, by Erin Yun (middle grade book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Scholarship to private school<\/a>? Cool!
Expectations from family? Heavy.
Keep both worlds apart? Ummm\u2026maybe?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pippa loves basketball, but her big sister won’t let her try out for the middle school team until her grades are better. Algebra tutor, from snooty Lakeview Private? Yuck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their mother agrees, back in Korea after her work visa in Massachusetts expired. Good grades will be Pippa’s path forward, beyond the family laundromat and its long hours of work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Lakeview offers Pippa a basketball scholarship, Omma and sister are delighted. Pippa decides to reinvent herself as a cool girl\u2026 but can she do it at the same school as her math tutor Eliot, where his father is the principal?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How can Pippa keep her fancy new friends<\/a> from knowing her humble origins?
Can she keep up her grades to keep this scholarship?
Who recommended her for this scholarship anyway?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worried about her best friend since forever Buddy, about Omma’s health, about playing against her old school in the big game\u2026 action on and off the court is getting intense!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How hard is it to live up to family expectations?
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book info<\/strong>: Pippa Park Raises Her Game \/ Erin Yun. Fabled Films Press, 2020. [book site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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