Peiling and the Chicken-Fried Christmas

Peiling and the Chicken-Fried Christmas by Chen, Pauline. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781599901220.

Christmas season is in full swing, and eleven-year-old Peiling Wang cant take another minute of it. She feels completely left out! Her family is from Taiwan, and even though they have been living in America since she was small, they have never once celebrated the biggest holiday of the year. But with encouragement from her hip, young uncle, Peiling musters up the courage to ask her parents the big question: Can we celebrate Christmas this year? With such high hopes (and maybe some unrealistic expectations!) it is especially disappointing when things dont turn out quite the way Peiling planned. But there is always a silver lining, and Peiling finds it.