Her scheme involves passing herself off as another student and lying to everybody she knows. When Yumi’s comedy idol, Jasmine Jasper, conducts a kids’ comedy camp in the neighborhood, Yumi is desperate to attend. She keeps a secret comedy notebook and practices comedy routines in her bedroom, where she thinks nobody can hear her. Yumi wants more than anything to be a stand-up comedian someday. Yumi frequently feels invisible since her parents brag about her overachieving 20-year-old sister, Yuri, who attends UCLA medical school. Much of Yumi’s free time is spent helping her parents in their family restaurant, Chung’s Barbecue. It is told using a first-person point of view from the perspective of protagonist Yumi Chung.Īs the tale begins, 11-year-old Yumi is enjoying her summer vacation away from the upscale Winston Academy prep school. The story takes place in the Koreatown neighborhood of contemporary Los Angeles during August. This study guide and all its page citations are based on the book’s Kindle edition. It is intended for readers aged 9 to 12 in grades 4-7. The author’s first novel falls under the categories of Children’s Asia & Asia America Studies and Children’s Performing Arts Books.
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