Measuring Up
by Lily LaMotte
Twelve-year-old Cici has just moved from Taiwan to Seattle, where she struggles to fit in at her new school while helping her family at their struggling Chinese restaurant. When she enters a cooking competition, she must find a way to measure up to both her family's expectations and her own dreams.
5th GradeGraphic Novels
About Lily LaMotte
The Virgin with a lily is a marble sculpture on a pedestal executed in 1878 by the French sculptor Eugène Delaplanche. The statue, depicting a virgin holding a lily, was exhibited at the Le Salon peinture et de sculpture de 1878, where it won the médaille d'honneur. It is currently shown at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
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