In many ways, it is a typical high school senior kind of story, but the culture issues, relationships, and humor of the book make it stand out as a sweet, clever story. It also talks a lot about the challenges of making college plans and leaving the people you love behind, Chinese culture, and relationships of mothers and their daughters. One of the highlights of the book is the challenges of dealing with threesome friendships, especially when some of the friends have had a more difficult relationship in the past. As she and her friends are dealing with romance, parents, and choosing which college to go to after they graduate, Erin has to learn how to delicately give advice when she herself doesn’t always know the right answers of what she should do. When one of her best friends sends a letter to the blog and then acts on the advice, Erin feels like she needs to fix what happens afterward. This review published by Brigham Young University's The Children's Book and Media ReviewĮrin desperately wants to be Chinese because of how many Chinese friends she has, so she secretly runs a popular advice blog called Miss Fortune Cookie.
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