Ling & Ting: Not Exactly the Same! by Grace Lin.
Little, Brown, and Co., Hachette Book Group, New York, 2010.
Early chapter book, 48 pages.
Lexile: 390L .
AR Level: 1.8 (worth 0.5 points) .
Six short stories from the life of Chinese-American twins Ling and Ting.
It’s extremely difficult to find suitable early chapter books at all, let alone diverse and culturally appropriate ones. While the availability of novels and picture books are slowly improving, these essential early reader and early chapter book categories remain ridiculously white, able-bodied, etc.
I’ve written about a few we tried back when my last reader was transitioning, but got away from this series of reviews as he turned toward more complex books. Now that my next child is ready to make this transition, I’m going to try a few new-to-us series (and hopefully complete reviews for the ones we bought last time around).