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Join our book club for fourth and fifth graders and read the graphic novel Measuring Up by Lily LaMotte. At the event we’ll talk about the book, have a snack, and do a fun book-related activity. Sign up here, then come to the Library and pick up a free copy of the book, while supplies last. Fourth and fifth graders only.

What’s this book about? Twelve-year-old Cici has just moved from Taiwan to Seattle, and the only thing she wants more than to fit in at her new school is to celebrate her grandmother, A-má’s, seventieth birthday together. Since she can’t go to A-má, Cici cooks up a plan to bring A-má to her by winning the grand prize in a kids’ cooking contest to pay for A-má’s plane ticket! There’s just one problem: Cici only knows how to cook Taiwanese food. And after her pickled cucumber debacle at lunch, she’s determined to channel her inner Julia Child. Can Cici find a winning recipe to reunite with A-má, a way to fit in with her new friends, and somehow find herself too?