The Year of the Dog

Do you think you could find yourself in just one year? Decide what your talent is? What you will do when you grow up? Pacy tries to do that during the Year of the Dog. Pacy is Chinese-American and so is her new best friend Melody. They are lucky to be friends because they both share the same traditions, being Chinese-American, actually Taiwanese-American. You can learn a lot from this story about the customs and traditions of Pacy's family from one Chinese New Year to the next. Pacy shares her life along with her mother's memories of her childhood: celebrating Halloween, cutting hair, eating ugly vegetables, playing a munchkin and even going to a camp with her family for Taiwanese-Americans. Author Grace Lin wrote the kind of book she wished she could have read when she was young. Maybe you will be inspired to write about your life and add little drawings, too, like Pacy (Grace Lin).