I Want Candy

Fourteen-year-old Candace Ong is wasting away in wonderland--Eggroll Wonderland, the restaurant where her under-Americanized family toils in San Francisco. She loves rock candy and rock music, jelly beans and jelly shoes--and hangs with her best friend Ruby, whose wild life she envies. Candace wants more than another stifling summer stuck in the kitchen. So when a new opportunity arises, she leaps at the chance--even though it means leaving home to experience a tantalizing, dangerous life far beyond the dim sum ho hum. But the waiting world may be a lot more than one brainiac Chinese Lolita can safely handle.

Author: Kim Wong Keltner
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: 01/29/2008
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 8.02h x 6.06w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780060847982

Review Citation(s):
Romantic Times 02/01/2008 pg. 57 - Excellent
Booklist 01/01/2008 pg. 42
School Library Journal 04/01/2008 pg. 173
Voice of Youth Advocates 06/01/2008 pg. 145 - Reviewed - More Editing Needed

About the Author
Keltner, Kim Wong: -

The only thing that keeps Kim Wong Keltner from writing is when she's trapped under an avalanche of her daughter's stuffed animals. Keltner is the author of The Dim Sum of All Things, Buddha Baby, and I Want Candy. Tiger Babies Strike Back is her first work of nonfiction.