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Summary: I mean it's not "too bad"
Review: This book was about a foreign Asian family that lived in L.A. They had a grocery store and people really liked them. Then their uncle asked the family if he could borrow a bunch of money to start a business up in Minnesota. The narrorator is a teenage boy named Chan. His twin sister's name is Young, and their last name is Kim. Their uncle, after starting his business and just leaves. He thought that he would make a bunch of money by working with robots. So the Kim's had to move up to Minnesota and run that business. When they get there they sign up for a school. Then Chan plays football for them. After a while, he was being made fun of and picked on because he was the only Asian kid on the team.
A thing that I did like about this book is that there is football in it. Anther thing I liked about this book is that it shows the struggle of a geeky foreign kid getting pushed around.
Things I didn't like about this was that they had some Asian words in it. I can't read that so that was bad. Another thing that I didn't like was that everything moved so fast. Like one day they are in L.A. and like two pages later their in Minnesota.
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Summary: This book was not bad but not the best either
Review: Chan i think was a bit of a coward for not facing up to the full of things. I do not know if i would recommend this book to people with opinions.
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Summary: Thanks to the readers
Review: Hello,I've gotten a lot of impassioned mail and email about this book. The ending seems to be quite controversial. All I want to say is thanks to every one of you readers out there! I'd love to hear from you.
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Summary: one of my favs 2
Review: i am from MN, too and i was lucky enough to meet the author at a booksigning, she is so cool. this book of hers is my favorite, she somehow made you really care for the characters like they were real people. i think i will read more of her books now. get this one, though, i highly recomend it.
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Summary: one of my favs 2
Review: i am from MN, too and i was lucky enough to meet the author at a booksigning, she is so cool. this book of hers is my favorite, she somehow made you really care for the characters like they were real people. i think i will read more of her books now. get this one, though, i highly recomend it.
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Summary: one of my favs.
Review: I had to read this book for a class and normally I don't like to read books, but this one rocks. I even cried. I won't tell you what happens tho and ruin your surprise. But the book tells you a lot of things about life.
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Summary: This book rocks!
Review: I had to read this book for a class and normally I don't like to read books, but this one rocks. I even cried. I won't tell you what happens tho and ruin your surprise. But the book tells you a lot of things about life.
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Summary: A Korean Family in Minnesota
Review: I read the book Nessesary Roughness. This book starts out with a Korean kid named Chan. He and his family moves to Minnasota because of their evil drug dealing uncle who needs more money to run a shop. As they rent a house in Minnesota, Chan and his sister has to go to school. While Chan is in school, three main parts occur. One, is when Chan makes a friend who asks him to play football. A second one is when Chan's sister wants to go out with Chan's friend but Chan's father said that she was to young. The third one is when Chan's sister dies in a car accident which changed the mood of the story. I think that this book was great. There are some Korean words in the book that people wouldn't understand but I undersood them all, because I am from Korea. I also think the author of this book did a fine job of making you understand the story.
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Summary: Good Book-What you're looking for...
Review: If you're looking for a book that will grab your interests and keep you entertained while you're bored, this is it. Necessary Roughness deals with racism, prejudice, school, teenager years of a 16 year old Korean boy name Chan Kim. Chan moves from LA where he enjoys his culture/heritage, to Minnesota where it is full of white people and his family was the only Asian Family in town. This book has some surprises and suspense going but there was only min. racism, i thought he was the only asian kid in town along with his twin sister? There has to be more racism than that. The book has kinda moves from one problem Chan deals with to another without totally clearing it up..but overall its still a good book, if you're asian or football fan..its good to know you can relate to this book.
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Summary: The Generation Culture Gap
Review: In this book, Marie G. Lee skillfully tackles the subject of the generation gap in a first generation Korean immigrant family. As the reader learns, the gap is not so different from the inter-generational conflicts experienced by most American teenagers. Still, in this engaging and well written book, she describes a father-son relationship further complicated by conflicting world views born of vastly different cultures. On the one hand, the reader does not have to be familiar with the immigrant experience to relate to the protagonist's frustration at not being undertood by his father. On the other, her story effectively illustrates the additional challenges of the inter-generational cross-cultural divide- an increasingly common teen experience in our increasingly diverse culture. The book also skillfully deals with the issues of racism and hatred without ever sounding preachy. Finally, the good news is: this medicine tastes great. Lee manages to write a substantive book that deals with weighty topics that is entertaining, funny, moving and engaging. I highly recommend this book and will plan to read more of Marie G. Lee's work.
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