...Flunks Big-Time is by one of E's current favorite authors, Lisa Yee, who also wrote Millicent Min, Girl Genius and So Totally Emily Ebers. E's assignment for this book is to come up with her own lesson plan and study guide, which we will post soon.
It’s not that I don’t like Yin-Yin’s dim sum – I love it. But it would be suicide to be seen at school with weird-looking food. I flop down on the couch next to my grandmother with a plate piled high with cha siu bao and ha gow. She reaches for one of the fluffy white pork buns without even taking her eyes off the television. I picked up a ha gow and bite into a shrimp. Someone on television is about to win a “fabulous prize!” Too bad it’s not me.
