Continental Drifter

Winner of the American Library Association's Asian/Pacific American Award for Children's Literature

With a Thai mother and an American father, Kathy lives in two different worlds. She spends most of the year in Bangkok, where she's secretly counting the days till summer vacation. That's when her family travels for twenty-four hours straight to finally arrive in a tiny seaside town in Maine.

Kathy loves Maine's idyllic beauty and all the exotic delicacies she can't get back home, like clam chowder and blueberry pie. But no matter how hard she tries, she struggles to fit in. She doesn't look like the other kids in this
rural New England town. Kathy just wants to find a place where she truly belongs, but she's not sure if it's in America, Thailand . . . or anywhere.

Author: Kathy MacLeod
Publisher: First Second
Published: 04/02/2024
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.50h x 6.30w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781250813732

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 3.5
Point Value: 2
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 551695 / Continental Drifter

Award: Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 03/15/2024 pg. 59
School Library Journal 04/01/2024 pg. 131
Horn Book Magazine 05/01/2024 pg. 158
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2024 - Superior,Well Above Average

About the Author

Kathy MacLeod is an illustrator and cartoonist whose work has appeared in The Believer, Catapult, The Hairpin,
and Lucky Peach. After spending most of her life in Bangkok, Thailand (with a four-year interlude at Wesleyan University), she is currently living in Berlin, Germany. Continental Drifter is her first graphic novel.