# Front Desk

**Author:** Kelly Yang
**Lexile:** 640L
**Grade range:** Grades 3–7
**Age range:** 8–12
**First published:** 2018
**Page count:** 286
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9781338157826`
**ISBN-10:** `1338157825`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/front-desk
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Ten-year-old Mia Tang runs the front desk of the motel her immigrant parents manage, hiding other immigrants in empty rooms while dreaming of becoming a writer and facing the motel's unkind owner. Kelly Yang's award-winning, semi-autobiographical novel about immigration, race, and resilience is widely assigned in grades 3-7.

## Themes

- immigration
- family
- race
- resilience

## Content notes

- racism

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