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Summer at Squee
- Narrated by: Yu-Li Alice Shen
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
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From Newbery Honor-winning author Andrea Wang, a new middle grade novel about a Chinese American tween who attends a Boston-based Chinese cultural overnight camp—and the many ways it transforms her.
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★ Blending moxie and grace, this novel is a worthy guide through cultural expansiveness and summer camp antics and angst.—Kirkus Reviews, starred review