# Navigating Night

**Author:** Julie Leung
**Grade range:** Grades K–5
**First published:** 2026
**Page count:** 49
**Genre:** Children's
**ISBN-13:** `9780593897690`
**ISBN-10:** `0593897692`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/navigating-night
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

A girl guides her dad on his route delivering Chinese take-out food in this touching picture book, written by an APALA-award winner, that celebrates the unique bond between immigrant parents and their children. Every night, a girl must help her dad, whose English is not as good as hers, make deliveries for their small family restaurant. Sitting next to him in the car, she studies a map and gives him directions in Cantonese. She helps him get to the places he needs to go. She hates doing this, though. Hates carrying grease-stained boxes of Mongolian beef and moo goo gai pan to customers' doors. Hates being different from the kids behind these doors. Why can't her family be normal like everyone else’s? But when her dad tells her about how he immigrated, all alone as a teenager, to the United

## Where this book is assigned

### Boston Globe–Horn Book Award

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