A Day for Vincent Chin and Me
Jacqueline Turner Banks. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), $15 (119pp) ISBN 978-0-618-13199-0
The characters introduced in Project Wheels and Egg-Drop Blues return in Jacqueline Turner Banks's A Day for Vincent Chin and Me. This time, sixth-grader Tommy narrates the events as his mother organizes the Asian-American community to draw attention to the death of the Chinese-American man whom his murderers blamed for Detroit's declining car sales and soaring unemployment. (Oct.)
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Reviewed on: 09/01/2001
Genre: Children's
Paperback - 128 pages - 978-0-618-54879-8
Prebound-Glued - 119 pages - 978-1-4177-1785-9
Prebound-Sewn - 978-0-606-33653-6
Prebound-Sewn - 119 pages - 978-0-7569-5082-8
