As she spends the day working in the store and watching the local parade, she can’t shake her anxiety about her parents’ naïveté. However, today is the Fourth of July and her parents just don’t understand that customers won’t be ordering chow mein and sweet-and-sour pork on this very American holiday. Paul Revere’s Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Ted Rand. Leave it to Grandma to accidentally garner an award during the Fourth of July parade. A Chinese-American girl helps her parents open their small neighborhood grocery store every day of the year. A light-hearted picture book about a grandmother who runs the town’s garbage collection, this intrepid woman drives the truck herself when all three of her sons come down with the flu. K-Gr 2–This simply told story explores a child’s fears about cultural differences and fitting in with understanding and affection.
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