TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kuo,Jane
ED  - Shao You-Bao Overseas Chinese Documentation and Research center
TI  - In the beautiful country
SN  - 9780063118980
U1  - FIC KUO 
KW  - Taiwanese
KW  - United States
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Taiwanese Americans
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Families
KW  - Culture shock
KW  - California
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - fast
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Juvenile works
KW  - Novels in verse
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Ages 8-12
N2  - Arriving in America, the so-called beautiful country, Anna, a young Taiwanese girl, finds it anything but beautiful as she and her family struggle to make a place for themselves in this world and learn the true meaning of home; Anna's family is moving from Taiwan to California in America, the beautiful country. But it is nothing like what she imagined: their one-bedroom apartment is tiny. At school she is taunted for the food she brings. The restaurant her parents sunk their entire savings into is losing money. What does it truly mean for a place to become home? -- adapted from jacket
ER  -