Warp Speed‘s Marley Sandelski prevails over his physical attackers Great Wall‘s Lucy combats emotional treachery.Īt 11-almost-12, Lucy Wu is the youngest in her family of three kids. The two titles together could be companion texts for sure: both highlight the prevalence of bullying in middle school. What advice do you have for kids who want to be writers.Talk about timing … as soon as I finished Lisa Yee’s Warp Speed, I arbitrarily began Wendy Wan-Long Shang‘s Great Wall. When I was staying at home with my kids, I started to write this book.” But it never occurred to me that I wanted to be a writer. Then a friend and I wrote a series of stories in high school, making fun of teachers. “I wrote that book when I was 5, and I wrote all through elementary school. You wrote your first book (about a bunny and a lamb) when you were 5, but this is your first published children’s book. For lots of kids, it is the biggest source of drama in their life. My children play sports, and I’m fascinated by the natural drama that comes from sports. Sports plays a big role in Lucy’s life did it when you were a kid? Even if their parents didn’t come from another country, life is so different now that I think kids should have a good time talking to their parents.” I loved hearing those stories from my parents, who came here when they were young adults.
ask the story of how their family got here. If kids just ask a few questions, they might get answers far more interesting than they might ever expect. “Every family has really amazing stories to tell. What do you hope kids get about family from your book? Sometimes it’s hard for kids to connect with their elders, whether there’s a cultural difference or not. So I tried to create scenes where you saw where Lucy was coming from but you could see where her parents were coming from, too.” I felt like no one was listening to me, even though people really were. I really remember what it was like and feeling that things were so unfair. “I guess I still have that 11-year-old voice going in my head. You really capture the emotions and conversations of Lucy and her friends well. KidsPost’s Tracy Grant spoke to Wan-Long Shang about getting into the mind of a tween, writing her first novel and what kids who want to be writers should do. The result unfolds in a funny new book called “The Great Wall of Lucy Wu,” by Falls Church author Wendy Wan-Long Shang. Have you ever just wanted to wall yourself off from a pesky sibling or a menacing bully or an annoying teacher? And maybe you have even gone as far as building an emotional wall, where you ignore the person and “tune out” what is being said or done.īut when 11-year-old Lucy Wu learns that she is going to have to share her bedroom with her grandmother’s sister who is visiting from China, she goes to extremes.
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