A moving story of understanding your heritage and loving who you are from award-winning author Maisie Chan
My name is Nate Yu Riley, and sometimes I think I'm the worst Chinese person ever!
Nate knows he looks Chinese on the outside - but what is he on the inside? Adopted by two white mums, he struggles to know where he fits in. Mum and Momo are always trying to get him to embrace his Chinese heritage, but Nate doesn't even know where to start with it all! He can't speak Chinese, and he doesn't know anything about Chinese customs. So what if a First World War shell casing engraved with a Chinese dragon turns up in a history exhibition at school - why should he be interested in it? But, when Nate touches the shell, someone extraordinary appears. Someone who needs Nate's help - and Nate might just need his, too ....
For fans of THE BOY AT THE BACK OF THE CLASS and ME, MY DAD AND THE END OF THE RAINBOW
The riveting story of how an unlikely friendship with the ghost of a Chinese WW1 soldier helps a young boy to embrace his own Chinese rootsThe new novel from the critically acclaimed and award-winning Maisie Chan, winner of the Branford Boase Award and the Jhalek Book Prize for DANNY CHUNG DOES NOT DO MATHS, which was also shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Awards and the Diverse Book AwardsWarmhearted, funny, tender contemporary middle grade for fans of ME, MY DAD AND THE END OF THE RAINBOW by Benjamin Dean, JAMIE by L.D. Lapinski and MY NAME IS SUNSHINE SIMPSON by G.M. Linton - a story of intergenerational relationship, identity, belonging and familyIncludes a historical thread that looks at one of the most moving untold stories of the First World War - the role and the sacrifices of the Chinese Labour Corps, 'the forgotten of the forgotten'A deeply personal story for Maisie who draws upon her own childhood of interracial adoption - Nate, too, is adopted by parents with a different ethnicity to his own 
