I Want Candy

Fourteen-year-old Candace Ong is wasting away in wonderland--Eggroll Wonderland, the restaurant where her under-Americanized family toils in San Francisco. She loves rock candy and rock music, jelly beans and jelly shoes--and hangs with her best friend Ruby, whose wild life she envies. Candace wants more than another stifling summer stuck in the kitchen. So when a new opportunity arises, she leaps at the chance--even though it means leaving home to experience a tantalizing, dangerous life far beyond the dim sum ho hum. But the waiting world may be a lot more than one brainiac Chinese Lolita can safely handle.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Avon Books
Published: 01/29/2008
ISBN: 9780060847982
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 8.02h x 6.06w x 0.69d

Review Citations: Romantic Times 02/01/2008 pg. 57 - Excellent
Booklist 01/01/2008 pg. 42
School Library Journal 04/01/2008 pg. 173
Voice of Youth Advocates 06/01/2008 pg. 145 - Reviewed - More Editing Needed