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Yep, Laurence
THE STAR FISHER
New York : Morrow, 1991
IL 5-8 RL 6.6
ISBN 0688093655
The Lee family decides to move from Ohio to West Virginia to expand their laundry business. They are totally unprepared for the prejudice of small town American of the 1930's. The townsfolk are suspicious of the Asian family and refuse to go to their laundry. The Lee children have trouble making friends at school. Will they ever fit in? Can a small town accept new people who are seen as outsiders? Read the STAR FISHER to find out.
SUBJECTS:     Chinese Americans -- Fiction
                        Moving, Household -- Fiction
                        Prejudices -- Fiction

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