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Mabuhay! can two kids save the world and still work their family food truck? Zachary Sterling

By: Sterling, Zachary.
Publisher: New York Scholastic c2023Description: 228 pages chiefly color illustrations 21 cm.ISBN: 9781338738605.Subject(s): Filipino American children -- Juvenile fiction | Ability -- Comic books, strips, etc | Mythology, Philippine -- Juvenile fiction | Mythology, Philippine -- Comic books, strips, etcDDC classification: Fic./Fil. S8389m 2023
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Graphic novel..
Summary: "First-generation Filipino siblings, JJ and Althea, struggle to belong at school. JJ wants to fit in with the crowd, while Althea wants to be accepted as she is. But between the leftover Filipino food their mom packs for their lunches to having a last name that nobody can pronounce, any sense of belonging seems like a long shot. To make matters worse, they have to help their parents run the family food truck, dressing up as a dancing pig and passing out samples. Ugh! And their parents are always drawing parallels between their poor work ethic and lazy characters from Filipino folklore -- stories they've heard again and again. But when witches, ogres, and other creatures from those same stories appear in their town and threaten their family, JJ and Althea realize that the myths their parents have always told them may be more real than they'd suspected. Can JJ and Althea embrace who they really are and save their family?"-- Provided by publisher
List(s) this item appears in: MIBF'25 New Acquisitions SY2025-2026
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Graphic novel..

"First-generation Filipino siblings, JJ and Althea, struggle to belong at school. JJ wants to fit in with the crowd, while Althea wants to be accepted as she is. But between the leftover Filipino food their mom packs for their lunches to having a last name that nobody can pronounce, any sense of belonging seems like a long shot. To make matters worse, they have to help their parents run the family food truck, dressing up as a dancing pig and passing out samples. Ugh! And their parents are always drawing parallels between their poor work ethic and lazy characters from Filipino folklore -- stories they've heard again and again. But when witches, ogres, and other creatures from those same stories appear in their town and threaten their family, JJ and Althea realize that the myths their parents have always told them may be more real than they'd suspected. Can JJ and Althea embrace who they really are and save their family?"-- Provided by publisher

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