American Born Chinese, by Gene Luen Yang

Jin and his family are Chinese immigrants and he moves to his first school in 5th grade. Since he felt that he would never make any friends since he was the only Asian in the class,he met Wei-Chen,a Chinese immigrant who moved to America after Jin. While Wei-Chen is down on Earth with Jin,the monkey king watches him from the high skies because he gave Wei-Chen a mission to do with his best friend. Also,a white American boy named Danny is struggling in the schools he goes and moves. His Chinese cousin Chin-Kee visits him every year and he follows him wherever he goes. Even to school. He feels that whenever he follows him to school,he gets humiliated. Although,he tries to kick him out of his house but Chin-Kee says he has to stay in America for a year.

I really enjoyed American Born Chinese, by  Gene Luen Yang. It made me feel like that there was laughter inside my body. What I liked about it was the stereotypes in the book made it into something funny and positive rather than people having to implicate that it's negative and racist. What I didn't like was nothing really. It is a very funny comic book that teens could read. I think that anyone could read this comic book. Even children. I liked the fact that there wasn't much bad words in it because I think that's what makes the book suitable for everyone to read. If this book was in a library's book shelf,then I think that the book should be placed in the children's area. I would give this a 4 or 5-star rating if I needed to. I also think that if you are Chinese or any other kind of Asian descent and you read this book,I really hope you try to not make the stereotypes sound really bad. Because really. I bet the author wrote these stereotypes down so people could learn more about the Asian culture and so people could have a laugh. I hope you guys would enjoy this book if you check this out!

Reviewed by Hannah Rachel, Grade 8
Downtown Central Library