TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chao,Gloria
TI  - American panda
SN  - 9781481499101
U1  - FIC CHA 
KW  - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Taiwanese Americans
KW  - Dating (Social customs)
KW  - Families
KW  - Secrecy
KW  - College students
KW  - Interracial dating
KW  - Phobias
KW  - Young adult fiction
N1  - 12+
N2  - A freshman at MIT, seventeen-year-old Mei Lu tries to live up to her Taiwanese parents' expectations, but no amount of tradition, obligation, or guilt prevent her from hiding several truths-- that she is a germaphobe who cannot become a doctor, she prefers dancing to biology, she decides to reconnect with her estranged older brother, and she is dating a Japanese boy. Can she find a way to be herself, before her web of lies unravels?
ER  -