A bighearted tale of family, forgotten stories and the search for belonging, from award-winning author Maisie Chan. Perfect for fans of Benjamin Dean, Jenny Pearson and Helen Rutter.
'A firecracker of a book - packed with sparks and surprises' - Frank Cottrell-Boyce
'Truly captivating' - Jen Carney
'An absolute delight' - Clare Weze
'Tender, funny and heartfelt' - Nazima Pathan
Nate Yu Riley loves three things: his Switch, his ant farm (especially Betsy, queen of the colony) and his family.
He's not so sure about some other things, like moving to a big city, starting a new school, and his parents making him do Chinese stuff. They're always trying to get him to embrace his heritage, but Nate can't speak Chinese, and he doesn't know anything about Chinese customs.
But when Nate comes across an old shell casing engraved with a Chinese dragon, he can't stop thinking about it. And when he touches the shell, someone extraordinary appears. A ghost from long ago. Someone who needs Nate's help - and Nate might just need his, too ...
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 Jhalak 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 
