Wednesday, December 5, 2007

American born Chinese, author Gene Luen Yang, its about a young Chinese boy moving to America,and all he wants is to fit in.when his family moves to a new neighborhood, he suddenly finds hat he's the only Chinese-American student at his school. Jocks and bullies pick on him constantly, and he has hardly any friends. Then,to make mater worse,he falls in love with an all-American girl. And a monkey that was born to rule over all the monkeys in the world, the story of the monkey king is one of the oldest and greatest Chinese fables. Adored by hissuject,master of the arts of kung-fu,he is the most powerful monkey on earth. but the monkey kings doesn't want to be a monkey.he wants to be hailed as a god.Chin-Kee is the ultimate negative chinese stereotype,and he's ruining his cousin Danny's a basketball player,a popular kid at school,but every year Chin-Kee comes to visit,and every year Danny has to transfer school from being humiliated in front o f his peers.


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