Turning the Corner - Softcover

Ma, Ruozhen

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798986913605

Publisher: Skylight Valley Creative Publishing, 2022

Synopsis

2022 Royal Dragonfly Award Winner

• 1st Place in "Children's Chapter Books", "New Author: Fiction" and "Young Author Fiction"
• 2nd Place in "Middle Grade Fiction"

Turning the Corner is a book for kids, written by a kid. It recounts the first semester back at school after two years of distance learning in Pandemic for an eleven-years-old Chinese American girl.
As Ruozhen navigates her last few months of elementary school, she must find her place in a school community that can sometimes be gossipy and cliquish.
Teetering on the brink of middle school, she is faced with the challenges that come from cultural differences, the awkwardness of the onset of puberty, and the anxiety of trying to live up to her mother's and her own high expectations.

Turning the Corner is a book that has love, friendship, loss, fear, courage, happiness, and strength. It is the 2022 Royal Dragonfly Award 1st Place Winner in Children's Chapter Books, New Author Fictions, and Young Author Fiction, and 2nd Place Winner in Middle Grade Fiction.

About this title

About the Author

Ruozhen Ma lives in Austin, Texas, with her parents and little brother, Hanson. Born in China, she moved to the US when she was 3 years old. She is now eleven and a half years old. This is the first book she has ever written. Outside of her time writing, she also enjoys playing the piano, playing soccer, and swimming.

Edition details

• Publisher: Skylight Valley Creative Publishing
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798986913605
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 171