Author: Ellen Levine
Illustrator: Steve Bjorkman
Title: I Hate English!
Genre: Children’s picture book, realistic fiction
Sub genre: Asian culture
Theme: learning English, appreciating culture, immigration
Primary and secondary characters: Mei Mei, Nancy
Date: 1989 Blue Ribbon Book Award winner
Publisher Company: Scholastic Inc.
Brief summary on how to use for students: This book can give a child a better understanding of a student who moves here from another country.
Summary: Mei Mei is a young girl who is an immigrant from Hong Kong that moves to New York’s Chinatown. She is upset about moving to America and only wants to speak and think in Chinese. With the help of her teacher Nancy, Mei Mei learns that she can have the better of two worlds by learning to communicate in both English and Chinese.
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