Mabuhay! / by Zachary Sterling.

By:

Sterling, Zack [author,, artist.]

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TextPublisher: New York, NY : Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, 2023Description: 228 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:

text, still image

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volume

ISBN:

9781338738643
9781338738605
9781668894163
133873864X
1338738607
1668894165

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DDC classification:

F STE 741.5/973 23

Summary: 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. But that hope seems like a long shot, for both of them. 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. Ugh! 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 that they'd suspected. Can they embrace who they really are and save their family?

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School Library Journal starred, September 2023

Publishers Weekly, August 2023

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. But that hope seems like a long shot, for both of them. 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. Ugh! 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 that they'd suspected. Can they embrace who they really are and save their family?