Making friends with Billy Wong

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MAKING FRIENDS WITH BILLY WONG is just terrific—a wonderful, heartwarming, and endearing story of the early s in the deep south. A spot-on portrayal of Azalea as well as her smart, mature, motivated Chinese-American friend Billy Wong and the difficult “redneck" bad-boy Willis, for whom I felt great sympathy, in spite of his unrelenting prejudice against Billy/5(21).

Augusta Scattergood's book Making Friends with Billy Wong is a refreshing story about a girl named Azalea who travels to Arkansas to take care of her ill grandmother, who she has never met.

Scattergood captures the newness of traveling somewhere for the first time very well/5. Making Friends with Billy Wong - Kindle edition by Scattergood, Augusta. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets.

Use features like bookmarks, note taking Making friends with Billy Wong book highlighting while reading Making Friends with Billy Wong/5(20). Praise for Making Friends with Billy Wong: “Scattergood Making friends with Billy Wong book an honest portrait of two young characters dealing with quick judgments, prejudice, and racism A refreshing novel inspired by real-life Chinese-American communities not often seen in stories.”.

Billy's parents own the Lucky Foods grocery store, where days are long, and folks aren't always friendly. Inspired by the true stories of Chinese immigrants who came to the American south during the civil rights era, this poignant story reminds us all that Making friends with Billy Wong book is where our hearts reside, and that friends can come to us in the most Making friends with Billy Wong book ways.

Making Friends with Billy Wong. In a quiet story set inScattergood (Glory Be) shines a light on a rarely told bit of history. Augusta Scattergood has done it again. She has written a book that is compelling and artful in its telling about how we encounter - and deal - with race.

In “Making Friends with Billy Wong” our main character, Azalea, has to spend the summer with a grandmother whom 5/5(1). Making Friends with Billy Wong by Augusta Scattergood. 9 Total Resources View Text Complexity Discover Like Books Audio Excerpt from Making Friends with Billy Wong (Billy) Created by Nerdy Book Club View on Nerdy Book Club Share.

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Talk about troubled Willis DeLoach or gossipy Melinda Bowman. Praise for Making Friends with Billy Wong: “Scattergood paints an honest portrait of two young characters dealing with quick judgments, prejudice, and racism A refreshing novel inspired by real-life Chinese-American communities not often seen in stories.” —Kirkus ReviewsAuthor: Augusta Scattergood.

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Making Friends with Billy Wong tells both sides of the story. Azalea’s side of the story is told in funny and determined prose, much like Azalea’s character herself. Interspersed are chapters that are told from Billy’s perspective in verse.

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MAKING FRIENDS WITH BILLY WONG. by Augusta Scattergood. Age Range: 8 - 12 The boy is Billy Wong, a budding reporter, whose family owns Lucky Foods, the only grocery store in town. Grandma Clark claims they can be friends, but Azalea has doubts.

our editors select the one author and one book they believe to be most worthy of your Author: Augusta Scattergood. MAKING FRIENDS WITH BILLY WONG is just terrific—a wonderful, heartwarming, and endearing story of the early s in the deep south.

A spot-on portrayal of Azalea as well as her smart, mature, motivated Chinese-American friend Billy Wong and the difficult “redneck" bad-boy Willis, for whom I felt great sympathy, in spite of his unrelenting prejudice against Billy/5. Audio Excerpt from Making Friends with Billy Wong; Interview with Augusta Scattergood about Making Friends with Billy Wong.

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Books by Augusta Scattergood 3. When her grandmother suggests she should make friends with a boy named Billy Wong, Azalea can't imagine making new friends (she is very shy) but particularly with a Chinese boy.

Grandma has arranged for some of the children in the town to help in. MAKING FRIENDS WITH BILLY WONG is based on a few memories and a lot of research. Augusta is represented by Augusta Scattergood grew up in the Mississippi Delta and left to attend college at the University of North Carolina and library school at Simmons College/5.

Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for Making Friends with Billy Wong at Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. The opening line in my new book, MAKING FRIENDS WITH BILLY WONG, mentions a 3-cent stamp.

I had to take this photo. A beautiful drive to Memphis, through the Mississippi Delta. And all good things must end. Thank you to all the friends and family who hosted me, showed up for my signings. Terrific, rich post.

Thanks from the writer in me. Very informative. I haven't read Making Friends with Billy Wong yet. I need to get to it. I loved Augusta's first book, Glory Be. February 7, at PM. She gradually becomes friends with Billy, and learns that being in Arkansas for the summer might not be so bad after all.

BYU ScholarsArchive Citation Rosen, Phyllis () "Making Friends with Billy Wong," Children's Book and Media Review: Vol. : Phyllis Rosen. Young Hoosier Books Making Friends With Billy Wong by Augusta Scattergood Mrs.

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I'm a former librarian turned book reviewer turned middle-grade author of three historical fiction novels. GLORY BE, THE WAY TO STAY IN DESTINY, and MAKING FRIENDS WITH BILLY WONG are all published by Scholastic : Augusta Scattergood. Check out my website for additional information.

I'm a former librarian turned book reviewer turned middle-grade author of three historical fiction novels. GLORY BE, THE WAY TO STAY IN DESTINY, and MAKING FRIENDS WITH BILLY WONG are all published by Scholastic : Augusta Scattergood.

Making Friends with Billy Wong by Augusta Scattergood. Augusta Scattergood tackles a little-known subject: that Asian Americans were also subject to Jim Crow laws in the South. In this chapter book, she gently weaves together a story of Azalea, a rising fifth-grader sent to live her grandmother in Arkansas that she’s never met before.

Azalea is not happy about being dropped off to look after Grandmother Clark. Even if she didn't care that much about meeting the new sixth graders in her Texas hometown, those strangers seem much preferable to the ones in Paris Junction.

Talk about troubled Willis DeLoach or gossipy Melinda Bowman. Who needs friends like these. And then there's Billy Wong, a Chinese-American boy who shows up. The opening line in my new book, MAKING FRIENDS WITH BILLY WONG, mentions a 3-cent stamp.

I had to take this photo. A beautiful drive to Memphis, through the Mississippi Delta. I'm a former librarian turned book reviewer turned middle-grade author of three historical fiction novels. GLORY BE, THE WAY TO STAY IN DESTINY, and MAKING FRIENDS WITH BILLY WONG are all published by Scholastic Press.

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Soon after completing Augusta Scattergood's middle grade novel, MAKING FRIENDS WITH BILLY WONG (Scholastic Press, ), I read David Corbett's article "To Change or Not to Change?" (Writer's Digest, January, ).

Thanks to Corbett, I found a terrific template to review Augusta's book. (Quotes from his article are in bold.). If you read between the lines, she truly is grateful for the opportunity to get to know Azalea.

Alongside Azalea there are other children from the local neighborhood coming to help in the garden, including one Billy Wong. Making Friends with Billy Wong is a story about family and relationships in part.

Primarily though it is a vehicle to. The 12 Books of #Diversity for the Holidays Welcome back to our #diversity countdown to Christmas. Our second book is Making Friends with Billy Wong by Augusta Scattergood.

Azalea is not happy about being dropped off to look after Grandmother Clark. Augusta Scattergood talks about her latest book, MAKING FRIENDS WITH BILLY WONG, and some of the real people and events that inspired her story.

#TrueFriends uploaded a video 3 years ago. Billy Wong has 63 books on Goodreads with ratings. Billy Wong’s most popular book is Iron Bloom (Legend of the Iron Flower, #1).It’s so great to see our young Asian friends depicted in books, isn’t it?

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