#1 Ellen Sung

Finding My Voice

Marie G. Lee
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Seventeen-year-old Ellen Sung just wants to be like everyone else at her all-white school. But the racist bullies of Arkin, Minnesota, will never let her forget that she’s different—the youngest member of the only Korean-American family in town. At the start of senior year, Ellen finds herself falling for Tomper Sandel, a football player who is popular and blond and undeniably cute…and to her surprise, he falls for her, too. Now Ellen has a chance at life she never imagined, one that defies the expectations of hanging out with her core group of friends or pleasing her parents. But is her romance with Tomper strong enough to withstand hometown bigotry and her family’s disapproval?
Genres: Young AdultContemporaryFictionRomanceRealistic FictionComing Of AgeAudiobookYoung Adult ContemporaryAsian LiteratureHigh School
176 Pages

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