“Everyone in Ly-Lan’s class seems to be losing teeth lately, but Ly-Lan only has one that is just a little bit loose. Then she bites into a mooncake that she got from the Mid-Autumn Festival, and it suddenly falls out! When she puts it under her pillow for the Tooth Fairy and it’s still there the next day, she declares the Tooth Fairy must be missing. Ly-Lan rallies her friends to help look for the Tooth Fairy, but the adults are less helpful. They keep talking to Ly-Lan about patience and God’s timing. There are more questions than answers in this mysterious case, but Ly-Lan will not rest until she has answers!”
Series: Book #3 in the “Ly-Lan Finds a Way” series. Reviews of Book #1 Here and Book #2 Here!
Spiritual Content- A prayer at bedtime & thanking God; A few talks about God & trusting His timing; ‘H’s are capital when referring to God; Ly-Lan’s mom tells her that only God knowing why and when things will happen & Ly-Lan asks how to get God to tell her when she’ll loose a tooth (which makes her mom laugh); Later, Ly-Lan tells her best friend what her mom said about trusting God’s timing, but she doesn’t think it’s right and wants to take matters into her own hands about losing a tooth; Three illustrations show that Ly-Lan has a cross on the wall in her bedroom; Mentions of God & trusting His timing; A few mentions of bedtime prayers & praying;
*Note: All about & many mentions of the Tooth Fairy, her magic, getting money from her for teeth, & Ly-Lan believing the Tooth Fairy is missing after she stays up to give her the tooth and the fairy doesn’t come; The Tooth Fairy is called “magical” (twice) and described to look like a fairy with little wings; An illustration shows Ly-Lan thinking of the Tooth Fairy living in a fairy garden and that she gets her money for the teeth she collects from there (and thus Ly-Lan thinking her mom was wrong about money not growing on trees as it does in the Tooth Fairy’s magical garden); Another illustration shows a tooth being the seed of a money tree for the Tooth Fairy; *Spoiler* At the very end, Ly-Lan’s tooth disappears with a dollar bill in the spot, which implies that the Tooth Fairy visited her during the night *End of Spoiler*; A couple mentions of keeping faith (for the Tooth Fairy to visit); A mention of a mermaid.
Negative Content- Ly-Lan rolls her eyes at a boy and finds him to be sometimes “annoying” (once); Ly-Lan is very concerned when the Tooth Fairy misses collecting her tooth, but her parents assure her that she will come soon; Ly-Lan feels competitive with the smartest boy in her class (over who has lost a baby tooth and the price of it from the Tooth Fairy), so she comes up with a plan to pull her tooth out with the help of her best friend, but her parents tell her that she can’t do that without talking to them about it first; A couple mentions of a lost dog (who was found safe a couple days later).
Sexual Content- N/A.
-Ly-Lan Tran, age 8
P.O.V. of Ly-Lan
96 pages
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My personal Rating-
A couple comments felt a little too adult-ish for an eight-year-old to say, but perhaps some kids would say “dental research” or “data collection” in the proper context and have made a chart for classmates who have lost teeth. I can’t quite tell if it’s a little unrealistic or if I’m completely outside of the target age market for this series. 😂 I do like Ly-Lan and her friend group, though, and learning more about Vietnamese culture!
All the tooth fairy stuff had it’s cute parts, but my family didn’t do that when I was growing up, so I think it was a little lost on me, personally. As a note for parents of young readers, there’s no info about the true identity of the Tooth Fairy, but older readers and adults will be able to read between the lines at Ly-Lan’s parents’ reactions to the Tooth Fairy “missing” her tooth.
See y’all on Friday 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.
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