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The Gold-Threaded Dress

Book Description
A young girl from Thailand finds that there are many shades to being American in this poignant story about longing to belong.

In Thailand she was named Oy, but here in America the teachers call her Olivia. Other things are not so easy to change, however. When Oy draws a self-portrait that has brown hair and eyes round as coins, her classmate Frankie makes fun and calls her Chinese. A... More
Book Information
PublisherCandlewick Press
BindingHardcover (17 editions)
Reading LevelAges 4-8
# of Pages80
ISBN-10B0085SJB36
Publication Date02/18/2002
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About Carolyn Marsden (Author) : I write multicultural middle grade fiction for Candlewick and Viking. Although I’m white, my protagonists are Thai, Vietnamese, Mexican, Native American, Chinese, Italian,and even from Rhodesia, now... more
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