In My Mei Mei by Ed Young, a young girl named Antonia begs and pleads with her parents to give her a "mei mei" or a younger sister. She wants one so bad she sometimes even pretends to have one. Eventually Antonia gets her wish and her and her family fly to China to get her new mei mei, but things don’t go exactly as Antonia had planned or hoped with her new baby sister.
I liked this book because it used language other than Enlgish in certain parts, such as when she was talks about being a big sister and wanting a little sister, so it was good to see the cultural side to the book. I also think this book would be an excellent way to describe different types of families. For instance in this book both of the children are adopted, yet they are still a family even though their mother didn’t give birth to them. I think the class could then have a discussion on their different kinds of families and the different kind of families that there are.
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