"Ly-Lan and the Unfair Book Fair" by Hà Dinh

About this book:

  “Sometimes life is not fair! In this second book in the Ly-Lan Finds a Way chapter book series about a daughter of Vietnamese immigrants, Ly-Lan navigates the school book fair—complete with anticipation and disappointment, surprising injustices (why did prices go up?), and finding a way to thrive.
    Ly-Lan couldn‘t be more excited for the book fair to come to her school. She’s going to buy the latest book in her favorite series, The Adventures of Pizza Head, two cute posters, and some pencils with a squishy top. But when she realizes that not all kids have money to buy books at the Book Fair, she wonders if the Book Fair is actually fair. At Sunday School, Ly-Lan learns that God is always just and fair, and wonders how she can help make it fair for everyone at school. Ly-Lan wants to help but that’s turning out to be much more difficult than she imagined. But if there’s one thing she’s good at, it’s problem solving and finding a way.”


Series: Book #2 in the “Ly-Lan Finds a Way” series. Review of Book #1 Here!


Spiritual Content- Going to Sunday school and learning about God being just and fair; 
Talks about God & Him being fair; Mentions of God; A couple mentions of Sunday school classes and lessons; A mention of a cross on the wall of Ly-Lan’s bedroom (also shown in an illustration);
             *Note: Mentions of magical creatures like unicorns and mermaids.
 

Negative Content- N/A. 
             *Note: Ly-Lan is upset that her parents won’t give her money for the Book Fair like they usually do because they want her to use the money she has (they work a deal for her to earn more by doing more chores and speaking Vietnamese more at home); Ly-Lan also gets upset that the Book Fair at her school isn’t fair because not every kid can buy something there (but she offers a solution to help with that). 
 
 
Sexual Content- N/A.
 
-Ly-Lan Tran, age 8
                                P.O.V. of Ly-Lan
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My personal Rating- 

We start this book with a quick little recap of the events in the first book in this series, “Ly-Lan and the New Class Mix-up”, and then it’s time to learn that the Book Fair is happening soon! I was in private school for a couple years before being homeschooled when I was about Ly-Lan’s age and the Book Fair was very exciting! Based off this story though, I would say prices have gone up in almost twenty years, haha! 

 

Ly-Lan has a good heart, but she definitely has lessons to learn—like we all do at that age. It’s a bit of a simple plot, but I think that’s due to it being for younger readers than I usually read and review for.

 

 

See y’all on Wednesday with a new review! 

*BFCG may (Read the review to see) recommend this book by this author. It does not mean I recommend all the books by this author.

*I received this book for free from the Publisher (Zonderkidz) for this honest review.