With a tone that is sharp but always sensitive

or a fancy dinner display

It doesn't matter that the girls die from the mental strain

an eight-year-old Chinese American girl whose desire for knowledge and belonging led her family to fight for her right to attend public school in San Francisco

Maybe Just Ask Me! Contemporary Women Fiction With a tone that isBased on the authors own childhood experience, this clever and heartfelt picture book follows a young girl who wants to bring discussion of her disability into the open, exploring themes of acknowledging and celebrating differences. Mazie wears an eyepatch and a head scarf, and on her first day at a new school shes prepared for her classmates to wonder why. And they do, but no one talks to her about it. Instead, wild rumors fly around the classroom