✦RBLevel 5 · Sophisticated ReadersUS Grade 6Lexile 670LAR (ATOS) 4.6 · First published 2022
📖 Read the book first: you need a copy of Maizy Chen’s Last Chance to use this workbook. Recommended edition: Yearling paperback (Random House Children’s Books), ISBN 9781984830272. Another edition works if you can follow the chapters. All recommended editions →
Subject Personalities
The real-world subjects this novel study leans into — the depth behind every Knowledge Bank and reading passage.
PRIMARY LENS
🚂 Chinese American History
The railroad builders, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and its repeal in 1943, Angel Island and the paper sons — the real history inside Lucky’s story.
SUPPORTING
🥟 Food, Family and Belonging
Small-town Chinese restaurants, the fortune cookie’s surprising story, words that travel between languages, and Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
SUPPORTING
📖 How a Story Is Built
A frame story with flashbacks, a stolen bear as a symbol, cliffhangers, foreshadowing and an ending that keeps the family story alive.
