Peiling and the Chicken-Fried Christmas

This engaging book explores how an 11 year old Taiwanese-American girl struggles to adapt to Christmas as celebrated by her peers in school. The author shows the main character, Peiling in a realistic and thoughtful way as she works through the issues of growing up. An interesting conflict revolves around Peiling's tension between the Chinese way of not showing off your
achievements and her American friend's need to be in the spotlight.