The Great Wall of Lucy Wu by Wendy Wan-Long Shang is about Lucy, a Chinese American girl who thinks she's about to have the best year of her life! She's an excellent basketball player, is on her way to 6th grade (oldest in the school!), and her older sister is moving out to attend college and leaving her bedroom to Lucy. Everything changes, though, when Lucy's long-lost aunt arrives in town. Not only does Lucy have to share her brand new bedroom with this complete stranger, she is forced to go to Chinese school... instead of BASKETBALL! To top it all off, Aunt Yi Po will be staying with their family for several months!! Having to deal with these changes would be bad enough, but Lucy also has to battle the school "mean girls" who are out to get her and ruin her chances of coaching the co-curricular basketball tournament, as well as trying to keep know-it-all, but desperately friendly Talent Chang at away from her. And, of course, there's this boy....
I loved this book! I really enjoyed seeing how Lucy changed over the course of her 6th grade year. Despite having to go through some major set-backs, Lucy comes out on top, having learned some valuable lessons about her own culture and values, her family and her friends.
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