Book: Mabuhay!
Author: Zachary Sterling
Pages: 240
This is my 33rd read for the year
What Amazon Says:
Can two kids save the world and work their family food truck? First-generation Filipino siblings JJ and Althea struggle to belong at school. JJ wants to fit in with the crowd, while Althea wants to be accepted as she is. To make matters worse, they have to help their parents run the family food truck by dressing up as a dancing pig and passing out samples. And their mom is always pointing out lessons from Filipino folklore - annoying tales they've heard again and again. But when witches, ogres, and other creatures from those same stories threaten their family, JJ and Althea realize that the folklore may be more real than they'd suspected. Can they embrace who they really are and save their family?
This book was not well written. I KNOW it is a kids graphic novel (and I read it for a reading challenge where a food truck needed to be on the cover), but reading many many of these over the years with Finley - there are much better GNs out there for this age group. Not well written, the character development wasn't there, and I just wanted to get through it.
Stars: 2
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