12/29/2023 0 Comments Invisible emmie book trailerHaving a hard time reconciling the many facets of my identity as I was growing You can’t have weather without science! As the book started coming together, I realized I had been given a fantastic opportunity to counter stereotypes about girls and STEM.Īs an engineer and a longtime science-lover, I remember After all, my main character is a princess whose entire family has magical weather powers. When I began writing the first book in the DIARY OF AN ICE PRINCESS series, including a science element came organically. Princesses, Pink, and Physics – Breaking the Mold of the “Typical” STEM Character ![]() The Middle Heart newsletter will go out on August 19th, with the Twitter chat to follow on August 27th! In her hilarious, moving middle-grade debut, Remy Lai delivers a scrumptious combination of vibrant graphic art and pitch-perfect writing that will appeal to fans of Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham’s Real Friends, Kelly Yang’s Front Desk, and Jerry Craft’s New Kid. As Jingwen and Yanghao bake elaborate cakes, they’ll have to cook up elaborate excuses to keep the cake making a secret from Mama. The only problem is his mother has laid down one major rule: the brothers are not to use the oven while she’s at work. To distract himself from the loneliness, Jingwen daydreams about making all the cakes on the menu of Pie in the Sky, the bakery his father had planned to open before he unexpectedly passed away. School is torture, making friends is impossible since he doesn’t speak English, and he’s often stuck looking after his (extremely irritating) little brother, Yanghao. When Jingwen moves to a new country, he feels like he’s landed on Mars. ![]() heartwarming and rib-tickling.” ―Terri Libenson, bestselling author of Invisible Emmie “Pie in the Sky is like enjoying a decadent cake. A poignant, laugh-out-loud illustrated middle-grade novel about an eleven-year-old boy’s immigration experience, his annoying little brother, and their cake-baking hijinks! Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier and Gene Luen Yang!
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