BUYING ADVISORY: EL (K-3) - OPTIONAL
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Tiên receives a special gift for her birthday. It's a beautiful jade bracelt that belonger to her late grandmother. Tiên appreciates it, but it's not like the bracelets her friends wear at school, so she is embarrassed and tries to hide it. When she tells her mother she doesn't want the bracelet, her mother has an idea.
I loved the connection to culture and family history, especially if the bracelet actually belonged to her grandmother, however, I didn't understand how she had a change of heart, other than seeing the other bracelet as a possibility. I'm sure this can happen and it probably does, but it leaves the resolution without a plot point. The child is Vietnamese.
Lisa Librarian
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