I loved this cute middle-grade novel about a girl whose parents get a job running a motel in Anaheim in the early nineties. She and her parents have moved from China to America and are working super hard, dead-end jobs to make ends meet. I loved the look of this immigrant family, and how hard it was for them being poor, and how so many other people were in their same situation at this time. But the book was also about Mia, a fifth-grader who has to learn to adapt and help out and still do well in school, even with all of these things going on in her home. I loved Mia's character, and how much she wanted to help and work, and how she took injustices and problems to heart and was determined to solve them. Mia had real problems, like coming home from school and finding her mom beat up by someone coming to try and rob the hotel, not like some of the manufactured problems that kids deal with in some books (or in their real lives here).. I thought this was a great story, and though the ending seemed a little "too good to be true," I found out there was a sequel that continues Mia's story and shows that it wasn't all perfect after this all.
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