Justina Chen Novel Nothing But the Truth (and a Few White Lies), (Paperback)

from bell7

"While ever other freshman is at the Spring Fling tonight, I have a date with an old lady whose thumb is feeling up my belly button." That is because Patty Ho's mother has taken her to a Belly-Button Grandmother, a woman who can read the future by feeling the belly-button. When the lady predicts ...

from SunnySD

Patty Ho has a Tawainese mother and an (absent) white father. Caught between two worlds, one in which Belly Button Grandmothers predict your future, and one in which dating, nail polish, and boys are normal pursuits for a fifteen-year-old, Patty's freshman year of high school has ended with an in...

from stephxsu

Half-white, half-Asian Patty Ho has never felt complete. Her white friends always joke about her crazy Taiwanese mother's ways, and Patty shuns the company of the goodie-goodie Anne Wong, the only other Asian girl at her school. But worst of all in Patty's life is her mother, who's a five-foot-ta...

from princess-starr

Wow, this was a fast read. A good one, but I honestly wasn't expecting to be done that quickly. (And I'm normally a quick reader to begin with.) I did have fun reading this, and it's a very light read compared to Girl Overboard. Patty's self-identity crisis is far different from Syrah's, and I li...

from bell7

"While ever other freshman is at the Spring Fling tonight, I have a date with an old lady whose thumb is feeling up my belly button." That is because Patty Ho's mother has taken her to a Belly-Button Grandmother, a woman who can read the future by feeling the belly-button. When the lady predicts ...