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Making Friends with Billy Wong
Making Friends with Billy Wong | Augusta Scattergood
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In 1952 eleven-year-old Azalea is sent to Paris Junction, Arkansas, to help out her grandmother who has injured her foot, but does not really seem to want her help; Billy Wong is a Chinese-American boy whose uncle owns the local grocery store, in town to attend the "white" school, since the Chinese mission school has closed, but frustrated by the overt prejudice of the local children--and over the summer the two begin to forge a friendship.
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Azalea‘s summer plans are turned upside down when the grandmother she‘s never met needs her help in another state.

In a small town in Arkansas Azalea meets a new friend, Billy Wong, whose family has been in the U.S. for almost 100 years. It‘s the 1950‘s, and she‘s learning about the prejudice her friend faces, and how to love her complicated family.

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