The land of forgotten girls
Readers rate it 3.3 (7 on Hardcover)
299 pages · Released 2016
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This middle-grade novel explores the immigrant experience and family bonds through the lens of two sisters navigating poverty and abandonment. While the premise involves difficult circumstances (poverty, parental abandonment, a harsh stepmother), the story ultimately celebrates resilience, sisterhood, and love. The emotional weight is appropriate for readers mature enough to engage with family dysfunction, and the hopeful resolution emphasizes connection over despair.
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Abandoned by their father and living in poverty with their heartless stepmother in Louisiana, two sisters from the Philippines, twelve-year-old Sol and six-year-old Ming, learn the true meaning of family. Abandoned by their father and living in poverty with their heartless stepmother in Louisiana, two sisters from the Philippines, twelve-year-old Sol and six-year-old Ming, learn the true meaning of family.
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- Filipino Americans
- Family problems
- Stepmothers
- Sisters
- Immigrants
- Fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Siblings
- JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Emigration & Immigration
- JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Alternative Family
- Children's fiction
- Sisters, fiction
- Louisiana, fiction
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ISBN 9780062238641