A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST Part historical fiction, part fable, and 100 percent adventure.
Thirteen-year-old Mei reimagines the myths of Paul. Anchoring herself with stories of Auntie Po, Mei navigates the difficulty and politics of lumber camp work and her growing romantic feelings for her friend Bee. And her most popular stories revolve around a larger-than-life figure that quite purposely calls to mind Paul Bunyan named Auntie Po and her constant companion, a big blue water buffalo named Pei Pei which, of course, completes the comparison to Bunyan as her analogue to the big blue ox named Babe. The Legend of Auntie Po by Shing Yin Khor: 9780525554882 : Books A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST Part historical fiction, part fable, and 100 percent adventure. Aware of the racial tumult in the years after the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act, Mei tries to remain blissfully focused on her job, her close friendship with the camp foreman's daughter, and telling stories about Paul Bunyan-reinvented as Po Pan Yin (Auntie Po), an elderly Chinese matriarch. Her plan is based on a sound strategic concept: if you can’t beat them, entice them into a war with an enemy that can. Thirteen-year-old Mei reimagines the myths of Paul Bunyan as starring a Chinese heroine while she works in a Sierra Nevada logging camp in 1885.Cover may vary. One of the adventures of Auntie Po that Mei shares with attentive audience is a story about the only kind of mosquitoes that would actually bother a woman of such prodigious size as Auntie Po.
Summary A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST Part historical fiction, part fable, and 100 percent adventure. As THE LEGEND OF AUNTIE PO opens, 13-year-old Mei helps her father run the kitchen at a logging camp in the Sierra Nevada. Label The Legend of Auntie Po Title The Legend of Auntie Po Creator The Legend of Auntie Po is about who gets to own a myth, and about immigrant families and communities holding on to rituals and traditions while staking out their own place in America.
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